TI-2025-29344 Aliases CVE-2025-46646 GHSA-56g6-5g9j-wjc3

Path traversal in Artifex Ghostscript

LOW 20CWE-24Published 2025-04-26 · Updated 2025-04-29

Key facts

Attack vector: Local
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: High
Impact type: —
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: Low · Low · None
Fix status: Partial Red Hat: 5 without a fix

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00184 8th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix Partial Ghostscript (Artifex): 10.05.0Red Hat: 5 without a fix

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Partial

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

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
Artifex	Ghostscript	before 10.05.0	10.05.0	Patch available	CNA

Ghostscript VendorArtifex Affected before 10.05.0 Fixed in 10.05.0 Patch available CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript::::::::	before 10.05.0	Vulnerable	Artifex

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

Remediation

Fix · CNA Ghostscript (Artifex) Fixed in 10.05.0

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

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

Product	Status	Plan or fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10	Affected	No fix yet: Fix deferred
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Affected	No fix yet: Fix deferred
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Affected	No fix yet: Fix deferred
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Affected	No fix yet: Fix deferred
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	Affected	No fix yet: Fix deferred

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-46646
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-56g6-5g9j-wjc3

References

Patch 1

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

Other 1

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708311

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

This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. Sources and licences