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TI-2025-20604 Aliases CVE-2025-27832GHSA-52fg-w63x-36xq

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0.

Priority MEDIUM 50CWE-120Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Code execution
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
Partial Red Hat: 10 fixed, 2 without a fix

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-120 and the CVSS impact.

Summary

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0. The NPDL device has a Compression buffer overflow for contrib/japanese/gdevnpdl.c.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.0084 58th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Partial Red Hat: 6 advisoriesRed Hat: 10 fixed, 2 without a fix

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
Yes
Technical impact
Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
——all versions—No fix listedCNA
  • — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*before 10.05.0VulnerableArtifex
  • cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 10.05.0 Vulnerable ·Artifex

Remediation

Red Hat 6 advisories

  • RHSA-2025:23153 Released 2025-12-15 · Red Hat rating Moderate
    ghostscript security update
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.9.0) ghostscript-9.54.0-7.el9_0.4, ghostscript-doc-9.54.0-7.el9_0.4, ghostscript-tools-dvipdf-9.54.0-7.el9_0.4 +4
  • RHSA-2025:22869 Released 2025-12-09 · Red Hat rating Moderate
    ghostscript security update
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.9.2) ghostscript-9.54.0-12.el9_2.3, ghostscript-doc-9.54.0-12.el9_2.3, ghostscript-tools-dvipdf-9.54.0-12.el9_2.3 +4
  • RHSA-2025:21915 Released 2025-11-24 · Red Hat rating Moderate
    ghostscript security update
    • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v.9.4) ghostscript-9.54.0-17.el9_4.1, ghostscript-tools-fonts-9.54.0-17.el9_4.1, ghostscript-tools-printing-9.54.0-17.el9_4.1 +1
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.4) ghostscript-9.54.0-17.el9_4.1, ghostscript-doc-9.54.0-17.el9_4.1, ghostscript-tools-dvipdf-9.54.0-17.el9_4.1 +4
Show 3 more Red Hat advisories
  • RHSA-2025:8421 Released 2025-06-03 · Red Hat rating Moderate
    ghostscript security update
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) ghostscript-9.27-17.el8_10, ghostscript-x11-9.27-17.el8_10, libgs-9.27-17.el8_10
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8) ghostscript-doc-9.27-17.el8_10, ghostscript-tools-dvipdf-9.27-17.el8_10, ghostscript-tools-fonts-9.27-17.el8_10 +2
  • RHSA-2025:7593 Released 2025-05-14 · Red Hat rating Moderate
    ghostscript security update
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10) ghostscript-10.02.1-16.el10_0, ghostscript-doc-10.02.1-16.el10_0, ghostscript-tools-fonts-10.02.1-16.el10_0 +2
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10) ghostscript-tools-dvipdf-10.02.1-16.el10_0, libgs-devel-10.02.1-16.el10_0
  • RHSA-2025:7586 Released 2025-05-14 · Red Hat rating Moderate
    ghostscript security update
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) ghostscript-9.54.0-19.el9_6, ghostscript-doc-9.54.0-19.el9_6, ghostscript-tools-dvipdf-9.54.0-19.el9_6 +4
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9) ghostscript-9.54.0-19.el9_6, ghostscript-tools-fonts-9.54.0-19.el9_6, ghostscript-tools-printing-9.54.0-19.el9_6 +1

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

ProductStatusPlan or fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6AffectedNo fix yet: Fix deferred
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7AffectedNo fix yet: Fix deferred
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v.9.4)Fixed RHSA-2025:21915
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)Fixed RHSA-2025:7593
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)Fixed RHSA-2025:8421
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)Fixed RHSA-2025:7586
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.9.0)Fixed RHSA-2025:23153
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.9.2)Fixed RHSA-2025:22869
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.4)Fixed RHSA-2025:21915
Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8)Fixed RHSA-2025:8421
Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)Fixed RHSA-2025:7593
Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9)Fixed RHSA-2025:7586

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-27832
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-52fg-w63x-36xq

References

Patch 1

  • TI-2017-05861 Artifex Ghostscript through 2017-04-26 allows -dSAFER bypass and remote command execution… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8
  • TI-2021-02712 Improper input validation in ghostscript CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.9
  • TI-2023-13382 In Artifex Ghostscript through 10.01.0, there is a buffer overflow leading to potential… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2018-11841 An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24. CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.8
  • TI-2024-19474 Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.0 has a stack-based buffer overflow in the… CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2020-14200 Buffer Overflow vulnerability in clj_media_size function in devices/gdevclj.c in Artifex… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8
See all 128 →

Sources

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