CVE-2025-27831

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0. The DOCXWRITE TXTWRITE device has a text buffer overflow via long characters to devices/vector/doc_common.c.

Published: 2025-03-25 Last update: 2026-06-17 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2025-27831 is rated Moderate Risk (54.2/100): CVSS Critical severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.56%). Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-27831

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.17% 0.56% +0.39%
2 2026-05-03 0.36% 0.17% -0.19%
3 2026-04-26 — 0.36% —

Full EPSS history (7 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-27831

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
9.8 3.1 CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:H)
Serious risk that confidential data gets exposed in a big way.
Integrity (I:H)
They could widely tamper with or forge data—trust in the data is badly hurt.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
 3.9 5.9 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-27831

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-27831

vendor priority summary link
alpine — CVE-2025-27831: 1 source package rows (ghostscript); 101 state rows across 6 repos (3.18-main, 3.19-main, 3.20-main, 3.21-main, 3.22-main, edge-main); fixed 11, open 90. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2025-27831
debian not yet assigned CVE-2025-27831 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (ghostscript), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-27831
gentoo high CVE-2025-27831: 1 GLSA(s) (202508-02), 1 atom(s) (app-text/ghostscript-gpl); latest impact high. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2025-27831
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-27831
suse medium CVE-2025-27831 severity moderate: SUSE including 16 source package names (ghostscript, ghostscript-10.05.0-1.1, …), 90 product×package rows across 31 product lines (SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS, … (31 product lines)): Fixed 75, Known Not Affected 15. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-27831/
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-27831 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (ghostscript), 7 status rows across 7 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, oracular, upstream, xenial): released 4, not-affected 3. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-27831

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-27831

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
artifex ghostscript < 10.05.0 cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2025-27831

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