Path Traversal Affecting ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.07% (23rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ARTIFEXSOFTWAREGHOSTPDL-9749327
  • published18 Apr 2025
  • disclosed25 Mar 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Mar 2025

CVE-2025-27837  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Path Traversal that allows arbitrary file read and write. An attacker can exploit this by sending truncated strings with invalid UTF-8 characters.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1