CVE-2018-16802

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.25. Incorrect "restoration of privilege" checking when running out of stack during exception handling could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to execute code using the "pipe" instruction. This is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-16509.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Sep 10, 2018
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2018-16802: High severity, CVSS 7.8 | Vulnix