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Fencer Vulns
high 7.8

CVE-2018-15909 json

In Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 before 2018-08-24, a type confusion using the .shfill operator could be used by attackers able to supply crafte…

published 2018-08-27 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-7765

cvss
7.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.0%
EPSS 3.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 87%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 before 2018-08-24, a type confusion using the .shfill operator could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files to crash the interpreter or potentially execute code.

Patch / fix

  • artifex gpl_ghostscript 9.26
  • pulsesecure pulse_connect_secure 8.2r12.1, 8.3r7.1, 9.0r3.4
  • ghostscript Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 9.22~dfsg-3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-15909

  • ghostscript Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.13
  • ghostscript Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.9
  • ghostscript Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 9.22~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-15909

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  • ghostscript RHEL 7 9.07-31.el7_6.1
  • ghostscript-gtk RHEL 7 9.07-31.el7_6.1
  • ghostscript-cups RHEL 7 9.07-31.el7_6.1

red hat advisories RHSA-2018:3650

  • ghostscript SLES 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP2-BCL, SLED 12 SP3 +9 more 9.25-23.13.1
  • ghostscript SLE Module for Basesystem 15 9.25-3.6.1
  • libspectre SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 0.2.8-3.2.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:2975-3SUSE-SU-2018:2975-2SUSE-SU-2018:2975-1SUSE-SU-2018:2976-1

  • ghostscript openSUSE Tumbleweed 9.54.0-2.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10783-1

  • ghostscript Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +17 more 9.24-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2018-15909

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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-2018-15909 updated cvss 7.3

ghostscript: shading_param incomplete type checking (699660)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ghostscript Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ghostscript, ghostscript-gtk
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Please refer to the "Mitigation" section of CVE-2018-16509 : https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-16509”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) ghostscript 9.07-31.el7_6.1, ghostscript-cups 9.07-31.el7_6.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) ghostscript-gtk 9.07-31.el7_6.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) ghostscript 9.07-31.el7_6.1, ghostscript-cups 9.07-31.el7_6.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) ghostscript-gtk 9.07-31.el7_6.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server (v. 7) ghostscript 9.07-31.el7_6.1, ghostscript-cups 9.07-31.el7_6.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server Optional (v. 7) ghostscript-gtk 9.07-31.el7_6.1
    +4 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) ghostscript 9.07-31.el7_6.1, ghostscript-cups 9.07-31.el7_6.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) ghostscript-gtk 9.07-31.el7_6.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) ghostscript 9.07-31.el7_6.1, ghostscript-cups 9.07-31.el7_6.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) ghostscript-gtk 9.07-31.el7_6.1
    fixed: vendor fix “Please refer to the "Mitigation" section of CVE-2018-16509 : https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-16509” RHSA-2018:3650
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 libgs, ghostscript, ghostscript-x11, ghostscript-tools-fonts, ghostscript-tools-dvipdf, ghostscript-tools-printing Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.2 mediawiki Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.3 mediawiki Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.4 mediawiki Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.5 mediawiki Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 mediawiki
    +6 more products
    Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.7 mediawiki Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.9 mediawiki Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.10 mediawiki Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 mediawiki Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.0 mediawiki Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1 mediawiki
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

2.98% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-704 Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast
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References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.