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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.3

CVE-2018-11645 json

psi/zfile.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.21rc1 permits the status command even if -dSAFER is used, which might allow remote attackers to…

published 2018-06-01 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-3668

cvss
5.3
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.6%
EPSS 2.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 85%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

psi/zfile.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.21rc1 permits the status command even if -dSAFER is used, which might allow remote attackers to determine the existence and size of arbitrary files, a similar issue to CVE-2016-7977.

Patch / fix

  • ghostscript Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 9.21~dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-11645

  • ghostscript Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.13
  • ghostscript Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.9

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-11645

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • ghostscript RHEL 7 9.25-2.el7
  • libgs RHEL 7 9.25-2.el7
  • ghostscript-gtk RHEL 7 9.25-2.el7
  • ghostscript-cups RHEL 7 9.25-2.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2019:2281

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-11645 updated cvss 5.3

ghostscript: status command permitted with -dSAFER in psi/zfile.c allowing attackers to identify the size and existence of files

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ghostscript Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ghostscript, ghostscript-gtk
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) libgs 9.25-2.el7, ghostscript 9.25-2.el7, ghostscript-cups 9.25-2.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) ghostscript-gtk 9.25-2.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) libgs 9.25-2.el7, ghostscript 9.25-2.el7, ghostscript-cups 9.25-2.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) ghostscript-gtk 9.25-2.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) libgs 9.25-2.el7, ghostscript 9.25-2.el7, ghostscript-cups 9.25-2.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) ghostscript-gtk 9.25-2.el7
    +2 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) libgs 9.25-2.el7, ghostscript 9.25-2.el7, ghostscript-cups 9.25-2.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) ghostscript-gtk 9.25-2.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:2281
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 libgs, ghostscript, ghostscript-x11, ghostscript-tools-fonts, ghostscript-tools-dvipdf, ghostscript-tools-printing
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

2.58% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

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