CVE-2025-27831

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-03-25 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-120

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.

Affected products

Artifex Ghostscript: before 10.05.0 — fixed in 10.05.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Artifex Ghostscript 10.05.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708132
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00014.html

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