CVE-2018-17961

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 10.0%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDOct 15

1st PoCOct 9

exploitation probability

10.0%top 5% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

3 public exploit(s)

Artifex Ghostscript 9.25 and earlier allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism via vectors involving errorhandler setup. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-17183.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 3

githubgithub.com/matlink/CVE-2018-17961★ 2 cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/45573/unverified exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/45573unverified

⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.

References

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a54c9e61e7d0 http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a5a9bf8c6a63 http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a6807394bd94 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1682&desc=2 https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699816 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00013.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/3803-1/https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4336 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45573/http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/09/4