CVE-2018-15911

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

3.04% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 86.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2018-08-28 04:00Z8 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 10:10Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2018-08-27

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-908Use of Uninitialized ResourceBase
• CWE-456Missing Initialization of a VariableVariant

Data version

5.1

Document digest

4d52ea898bfd9d13a7fb87f30036c13e391ba07a05580e60b415234d6b301c71

• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201811-12https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
• usn.ubuntu.comUSN-3768-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
• bugs.ghostscript.comhttps://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699665x_refsource_MISC
• access.redhat.comRHSA-2018:3834https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
• www.kb.cert.orghttps://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/332928x_refsource_MISC
• www.debian.orgDSA-4288https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4288vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
• git.ghostscript.comhttp://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8e9ce5016db968b40e4ec255a3005f2786cce45fx_refsource_MISC
• lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20180913 [SECURITY] [DLA 1504-1] ghostscript security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.htmlmailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.securityfocus.com105122http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105122vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• kb.pulsesecure.nethttps://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44101x_refsource_CONFIRM
• support.f5.comhttps://support.f5.com/csp/article/K22141757?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSSx_refsource_CONFIRM