CVE-2025-27837 Affecting ghostscript package, versions <10.05.0


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE319-GHOSTSCRIPT-10185737
  • published20 May 2025
  • disclosed25 Mar 2025

Introduced: 25 Mar 2025

CVE-2025-27837  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.19 ghostscript to version 10.05.0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript package and not the ghostscript package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.19 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0. Access to arbitrary files can occur through a truncated path with invalid UTF-8 characters, for base/gp_mswin.c and base/winrtsup.cpp.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1