CVE-2025-27837
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.18%
Description
An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0. Access to arbitrary files can occur through a truncated path with invalid UTF-8 characters, for base/gp_mswin.c and base/winrtsup.cpp.
How to fix CVE-2025-27837
To remediate CVE-2025-27837, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/ghostscript—upgrade to 10.05.0 or later
Is CVE-2025-27837 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 10.05.0
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 |