8.6
HIGH
CVE-2018-18284
Ghostscript Bypass Sandboxed Policy Operator Vulnerability
Description

Artifex Ghostscript 9.25 and earlier allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism via vectors involving the 1Policy operator.

INFO

Published Date :

Oct. 19, 2018, 10:29 p.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 3:55 a.m.

Source :

[email protected]

Remotely Exploitable :

No

Impact Score :

6.0

Exploitability Score :

1.8
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2018-18284 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Redhat enterprise_linux_desktop
2 Redhat enterprise_linux_server
3 Redhat enterprise_linux_workstation
4 Redhat enterprise_linux_server_aus
5 Redhat enterprise_linux_server_eus
6 Redhat enterprise_linux_server_tus
1 Artifex ghostscript
2 Artifex gpl_ghostscript
1 Canonical ubuntu_linux
1 Debian debian_linux
1 Pulsesecure pulse_connect_secure
: Total Affected Vendor : 5 | Products : 11
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2018-18284.

URL Resource
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Bh=8d19fdf63f91f50466b08f23e2d93d37a4c5ea0b
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/16/2 Exploit Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107451 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834 Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1696 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699963 Issue Tracking Permissions Required Third Party Advisory
https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44101 Patch Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00013.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12 Mitigation Third Party Advisory
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K22141757?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSS
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3803-1/ Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4336 Third Party Advisory
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Bh=8d19fdf63f91f50466b08f23e2d93d37a4c5ea0b
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/16/2 Exploit Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107451 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834 Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1696 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699963 Issue Tracking Permissions Required Third Party Advisory
https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44101 Patch Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00013.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12 Mitigation Third Party Advisory
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K22141757?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSS
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3803-1/ Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4336 Third Party Advisory

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The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2018-18284 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2018-18284 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 07, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference MITRE http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Bh=8d19fdf63f91f50466b08f23e2d93d37a4c5ea0b [No types assigned]
    Added Reference MITRE https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K22141757?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSS [No types assigned]
    Removed Reference MITRE http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;h=8d19fdf63f91f50466b08f23e2d93d37a4c5ea0b
    Removed Reference MITRE https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K22141757?utm_source=f5support&utm_medium=RSS
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 05, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K22141757?utm_source=f5support&utm_medium=RSS [No Types Assigned]
  • CWE Remap by [email protected]

    Oct. 03, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CWE CWE-254 CWE-254 NVD-CWE-noinfo
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    May. 07, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107451 No Types Assigned http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107451 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Apr. 26, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107451 [No Types Assigned]
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Apr. 25, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44101 No Types Assigned https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44101 Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:pulsesecure:pulse_connect_secure:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 8.2r1.0 up to (excluding) 8.2r12.1 *cpe:2.3:a:pulsesecure:pulse_connect_secure:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 8.3r1 up to (excluding) 8.3r7.1 *cpe:2.3:a:pulsesecure:pulse_connect_secure:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 9.0r1 up to (excluding) 9.0r3.4
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Apr. 25, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44101 [No Types Assigned]
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Mar. 11, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 Metadata Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
    Changed CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
    Changed CVSS V3 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834 No Types Assigned https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834 Third Party Advisory
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:artifex:gpl_ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 9.26
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus:7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_eus:7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_tus:7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Dec. 18, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834 [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Dec. 06, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
    Added CVSS V3 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1696 No Types Assigned https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1696 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699963 No Types Assigned https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699963 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://usn.ubuntu.com/3803-1/ No Types Assigned https://usn.ubuntu.com/3803-1/ Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12 No Types Assigned https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12 Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;h=8d19fdf63f91f50466b08f23e2d93d37a4c5ea0b No Types Assigned http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;h=8d19fdf63f91f50466b08f23e2d93d37a4c5ea0b Patch
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00013.html No Types Assigned https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00013.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/16/2 No Types Assigned http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/16/2 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4336 No Types Assigned https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4336 Third Party Advisory
    Added CWE CWE-254
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (including) 9.25
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 25, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 11, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4336 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Oct. 31, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://usn.ubuntu.com/3803-1/ [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Oct. 23, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00013.html [No Types Assigned]
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2018-18284 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2018-18284 weaknesses.

Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.12 }} 0.02%

score

0.45522

percentile

CVSS30 - Vulnerability Scoring System
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