VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2025-27832

The NPDL device has a Compression buffer overflow for contrib/japanese/gdevnpdl.c.

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 0.81%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.81%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0. The NPDL device has a Compression buffer overflow for contrib/japanese/gdevnpdl.c.

CVSS 3.1: 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS: 0.81% probability · 55th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-120
Affected: artifex/ghostscript
Source: cve@mitre.org

References

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708133Issue Tracking, Patch
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00014.html

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.