CVE-2025-46646

April 26, 2025, 3:15 p.m.

4.5
Medium

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.

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor Product Versions
Artifex
  • Ghostscript
  • *

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-24
Path Traversal: '../filedir'
The product uses external input to construct a pathname that should be within a restricted directory, but it does not properly neutralize "../" sequences that can resolve to a location that is outside of that directory.

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language Software Edition Target Software Target Hardware Other Information
a artifex ghostscript / / / / / / / /

References

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

Tags

cve@mitre.org
CWE-24
2025-04-26
CVE-2025-46646

CVSS Score

4.5 / 10

CVSS Data - 3.1

  • Attack Vector: LOCAL
  • Attack Complexity: HIGH
  • Privileges Required: NONE
  • Scope: CHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact: LOW
  • Integrity Impact: LOW
  • Availability Impact: NONE

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

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Timeline

Published: April 26, 2025, 3:15 p.m.
Last Modified: April 26, 2025, 3:15 p.m.

Status : Received

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

cve@mitre.org

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