CVE-2025-46646
4.5
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.07%
Description
In Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0, decode_utf8 in base/gp_utf8.c mishandles overlong UTF-8 encoding. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2024-46954.
How to fix CVE-2025-46646
To remediate CVE-2025-46646, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/ghostscript—upgrade to 10.05.1 or later
- Debian/ghostscript—upgrade to 10.05.0~dfsg-1 or later
Is CVE-2025-46646 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 10.05.1
- from 0, < 10.05.0~dfsg-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM4.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |