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CVE-2018-15908

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-08-27 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

In Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 before 2018-08-23, attackers are able to supply malicious PostScript files to bypass .tempfile restrictions and write files.

Affected products

• Artifex Ghostscript: through 9.23
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04
• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 7.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: 7.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0

References

• http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0d3901189f245232f0161addf215d7268c4d05a3
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3650
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4288
• https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/332928
• http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0d3901189f245232f0161addf215d7268c4d05a3
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3650
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/

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