CVE-2025-27831
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.17%
Description
An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0. The DOCXWRITE TXTWRITE device has a text buffer overflow via long characters to devices/vector/doc_common.c.
How to fix CVE-2025-27831
To remediate CVE-2025-27831, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/ghostscript—upgrade to 10.05.0 or later
- Debian/ghostscript—upgrade to 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u10 or later
Is CVE-2025-27831 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 10.05.0
- from 0, < 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u10
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |