CVE-2025-27831

CVSS 3.1 Score 9.8 of 10 (high)

Details

Published Mar 25, 2025

Updated: Apr 1, 2025

CWE ID 120

Summary

CVE-2025-27831 is a text buffer overflow vulnerability affecting Artifex Ghostscript before version 10.05.0. The DOCXWRITE TXTWRITE device contains a flaw that allows an attacker to overwrite memory by sending long characters to the devices/vector/doc_common.c file. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution and potential security compromises. Users are advised to upgrade to the latest version of Ghostscript to mitigate this vulnerability.

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GhostScript

Affected Vendors

Artifex

Advisories, Assessments, and Mitigations

https://app.recordedfuture.com/live/sc/entity/4G5xVc
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-27831
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-27831

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