CVE-2025-46646

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-04-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-24

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.

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=708311
https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=f14ea81e6c3d2f51593f23cdf13c4679a18f1a3f

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