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CVE-2018-16509

7.8
HIGHCVSS v3.1 Base Score
91.81%
HIGH RiskEPSS (100th percentile)
NVD-CWE-noinfo

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24. Incorrect "restoration of privilege" checking during handling of /invalidaccess exceptions could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to execute code using the "pipe" instruction.

Published: 9/5/2018
Modified: 11/21/2024
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Vulnerability Summary

CVSS v3 Score

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2 Score

9.3

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS Score (Exploitation Probability)

91.81%HIGH Exploitation Risk
100th percentile

This vulnerability has a 91.81% probability of being exploited in the next 30 days, ranking higher than 100% of all scored CVEs.

CWE Classification

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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