Improper Cross-boundary Removal of Sensitive Data Affecting ghostscript-devel package, versions <9.52-150000.206.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES156-GHOSTSCRIPTDEVEL-13450744
  • published8 Oct 2025
  • disclosed7 Oct 2025

Introduced: 7 Oct 2025

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

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 ghostscript-devel to version 9.52-150000.206.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript-devel package and not the ghostscript-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.6 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