Improper Cross-boundary Removal of Sensitive Data Affecting ghostscript-debuginfo package, versions <0:9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.11


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-GHOSTSCRIPTDEBUGINFO-10346540
  • published13 Jun 2025
  • disclosed23 May 2025

Introduced: 23 May 2025

NewCVE-2025-48708  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-212  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 ghostscript-debuginfo to version 0:9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.11 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2025-2875.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript-debuginfo package and not the ghostscript-debuginfo package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

gs_lib_ctx_stash_sanitized_arg in base/gslibctx.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.1 lacks argument sanitization for the # case. A created PDF document includes its password in cleartext.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1