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CVE-2018-16863

HIGH · CVSS 7.3 EPSS 1.25% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2018-12-03 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.3. It affects Linux. Public exploit code or proof-of-concept references have been detected in its references.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

Detected Signals
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CVE
CVE-2018-16863
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.3
EPSS
1.25%
Linux

Original NVD Description

It was found that RHSA-2018:2918 did not fully fix CVE-2018-16509. An attacker could possibly exploit another variant of the flaw and bypass the -dSAFER protection to, for example, execute arbitrary shell commands via a specially crafted PostScript document. This only affects ghostscript 9.07 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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