CVE-2018-15908: Artifex Ghostscript

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 before 2018-08-23, attackers are able to supply malicious PostScript files to bypass .tempfile restrictions and write files.

Affected products

• Artifex Ghostscript: up to and including 9.23
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: version 7.6 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: version 7.6 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only

Published 2018-08-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.