{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 9 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-18073 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2018-18073 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Artifex Ghostscript, published on 15 Oct 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2018-18073 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2018-18073 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Artifex Ghostscript, published on 15 Oct 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-18073 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Artifex Ghostscript. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-18073/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-18073/index.md)","id":"CVE-2018-18073","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-18073/index.md","name":"CVE-2018-18073","record":{"aliases":["ALPINE-CVE-2018-18073","DEBIAN-CVE-2018-18073","GHSA-38q2-vj2m-g35p","UBUNTU-CVE-2018-18073"],"analysis":{"component_type":"library","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["security_bypass"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Ghostscript library","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Attackers can bypass Ghostscript sandbox protections by exploiting exposed system operators in error objects, potentially leading to unauthorized access.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"security_feature_bypass"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"ghostscript","vendor":"artifex"},{"product":"ubuntu_linux","vendor":"canonical"},{"product":"debian_linux","vendor":"debian"},{"product":"enterprise_linux_desktop","vendor":"redhat"},{"product":"enterprise_linux_server","vendor":"redhat"},{"product":"enterprise_linux_server_aus","vendor":"redhat"},{"product":"enterprise_linux_server_eus","vendor":"redhat"},{"product":"enterprise_linux_server_tus","vendor":"redhat"},{"product":"enterprise_linux_workstation","vendor":"redhat"}],"cvss":{"score":6.3,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-200","name":"Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor"}],"description":"Artifex Ghostscript allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism by leveraging exposure of system operators in the saved execution stack in an error object.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Security feature bypass in n/a","id":"CVE-2018-18073","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"artifex:ghostscript","products":["artifex:ghostscript","canonical:ubuntu_linux","debian:debian_linux","redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop","redhat:enterprise_linux_server","redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus","redhat:enterprise_linux_server_eus","redhat:enterprise_linux_server_tus","redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation"],"type":"security_feature_bypass","year":"2018"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":9,"next":{"headline":"Insufficiently Protected Credentials in Requests","id":"CVE-2018-18074"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Information disclosure in n/a","id":"CVE-2018-18071"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2018-10-15","related":[{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Artifex Ghostscript Type Confusion","id":"CVE-2017-8291","kev_date_added":"2022-05-24","published":"2017-04-27"},{"cvss_score":9.9,"headline":"Command injection in ghostscript","id":"CVE-2021-3781","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-02-16"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2025-27831","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-03-25"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2025-27832","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-03-25"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2025-27836","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-03-25"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0.","id":"CVE-2025-27837","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-03-25"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Use after free in n/a","id":"CVE-2020-36773","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-02-04"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-05","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Attackers can bypass Ghostscript sandbox protections by exploiting exposed system operators in error objects, potentially leading to unauthorized access.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-18073/"}