4.5

CVE-2025-46646: artifex ghostscript Path Traversal: '../filedir'

CVSS: 4.5v3.1MediumAnalyzed
AliasesALPINE-CVE-2025-46646UBUNTU-CVE-2025-46646USN-7473-1
Published 26-04-2025Last modified 29-04-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-46646 is a medium (CVSS 4.5) Path Traversal: '../filedir' vulnerability in artifex ghostscript. EPSS estimates a 0.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 7.5% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
18/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
4.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.18%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2 · Related 2
OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15413-1OPENSUSE-SU-2026:20592-1

Timeline

  1. 26-04-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 29-04-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0, decode_utf8 in base/gp_utf8.c mishandles overlong UTF-8 encoding. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2024-46954.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.18%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

8%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.01 pp

From 0.18% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
0.18%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Alpine1 product
  • ghostscript< 10.05.1 | < 10.05.1-r0
Artifex1 product
Debian1 product
  • ghostscript< 10.05.0~dfsg-1
Ubuntu1 product
  • ghostscript< 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.6

4 vendors · 4 products

References

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