CVE-2025-46646 (GCVE-0-2025-46646)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-26 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-29 15:23
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Summary
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.
Severity
4.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-29 13:44 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-24 - Path Traversal: '../filedir'
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Vendor Product Version CPE status
Artifex Ghostscript Affected: 0 , < 10.05.0 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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