CVE-2025-59798
ghostscript - security update
5.5
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.02%
Description
Artifex Ghostscript through 10.05.1 has a stack-based buffer overflow in pdf_write_cmap in devices/vector/gdevpdtw.c.
How to fix CVE-2025-59798
To remediate CVE-2025-59798, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/ghostscript—upgrade to 10.06.0-r0 or later
- Debian/ghostscript—upgrade to 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u11 or later
- —upgrade to 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u11 or later
- —upgrade to 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8 or later
Is CVE-2025-59798 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (4)
- from 0, < 10.06.0-r0
- from 0, < 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u11
- from 0, < 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u11
- from 0, < 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |