9.8

CVE-2025-27836: artifex ghostscript

Modified
AliasesALPINE-CVE-2025-27836UBUNTU-CVE-2025-27836DEBIAN-CVE-2025-27836
Published 25-03-2025Last modified 03-11-2025

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-27836 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability in artifex ghostscript. EPSS estimates a 0.60% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 48.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Prioritisesevere

Severe, CVSS 9.8 (CVE.org); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources; EPSS 1% (FIRST, 03-11-2026)

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
9.8/10
010
Critical · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.60%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 8 · Related 5
DLA-4118-1DSA-5888-1MGASA-2025-0098OPENSUSE-SU-2025:14953-1SUSE-SU-2025:1118-1SUSE-SU-2025:1127-1

Timeline

  1. 25-03-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 03-11-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0. The BJ10V device has a Print buffer overflow in contrib/japanese/gdev10v.c.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.60%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

49%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

Increase +0.01 pp

From 0.59% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Alpine1 product
  • ghostscript< 10.05.0 | < 10.05.0-r0
Artifex1 product
Debian1 product
  • ghostscript< 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u7 | < 10.05.0~dfsg-1
Ubuntu1 product
  • ghostscript< 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.14+esm9 | < 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.18+esm4 | < 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.15 | < 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.11 | < 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.5

4 vendors · 4 products

References

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