CVE-2018-16863: Artifex ghostscript

It was found that RHSA-2018:2918 did not fully fix CVE-2018-16509.

CVSS 7.3 HighEPSS 0.012 · 69th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 3 Dec 2018, 17:00 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Artifex	ghostscript	affected 9.07

Identifiers

CVE-2018-16863

CNA

redhat

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-184

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
7.3	High	3.0	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L	CNA (redhat)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.012, the 69th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 3 Dec 2018. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5516c614dc33 confirm
git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=78911a01b67d confirm
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16863 confirm
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3761 vendor-advisoryredhat
git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=79cccf641486 confirm
git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=520bb0ea7519 confirm

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.