CVE-2025-27831

9.8 CRITICAL

Published: March 25, 2025 Modified: November 03, 2025

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.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0

Vector String

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708132

Source: cve@mitre.org

Issue Tracking Patch

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00014.html

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

2 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score

9.8 / 10.0

EPSS (Exploit Probability)

0.2%

38th percentile

Exploitation Status

Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-120

Affected Vendors

artifex

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