6.8 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
7.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
0.015 Low
EPSS
Percentile
87.0%
The version of Artifex Ghostscript installed on the remote Windows host is 9.22 or earlier. It is, therefore, affected by a denial of service vulnerability due to improperly handling PostScript data. A context-dependent attacker could cause a buffer overflow, potentially crashing the service.
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
include("compat.inc");
if (description)
{
script_id(109405);
script_version("1.6");
script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/11/08");
script_cve_id("CVE-2018-10194");
script_name(english:"Artifex Ghostscript PostScript Handling Buffer Overflow DoS");
script_summary(english:"Checks the Ghostscript version.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Windows host contains a library that is affected by a
denial of service vulnerability.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The version of Artifex Ghostscript installed on the remote Windows
host is 9.22 or earlier. It is, therefore, affected by a denial of
service vulnerability due to improperly handling PostScript data. A
context-dependent attacker could cause a buffer overflow,
potentially crashing the service.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q2/58");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699255");
# http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=39b1e54b2968620723bf32e96764c88797714879
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?d3f6a0f5");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update to 9.23 or refer to bug 699255 for possible workarounds or
patches.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2018-10194");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/04/18");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/04/18");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/04/27");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:artifex:ghostscript");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:artifex:gpl_ghostscript");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Windows");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ghostscript_detect.nbin");
script_require_keys("installed_sw/Ghostscript");
exit(0);
}
include("vcf.inc");
app = "Ghostscript";
constraints = [{"fixed_version" : "9.23"}];
app_info = vcf::get_app_info(app:app, win_local:TRUE);
vcf::check_version_and_report(app_info:app_info, constraints:constraints, severity:SECURITY_WARNING);
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
artifex | ghostscript | cpe:/a:artifex:ghostscript | |
artifex | gpl_ghostscript | cpe:/a:artifex:gpl_ghostscript |
6.8 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
7.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
0.015 Low
EPSS
Percentile
87.0%