CVE-2025-59800 [Medium] | Integer Overflow in Ghostscript

CVE-2025-59800 is rated Low Risk (17.7/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.01%). Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.

#	Date	Old EPSS score	New EPSS score	Delta (New - Old)
1	2025-09-22	—	0.01%	—

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Old EPSS score

New EPSS score

Delta (New - Old)

2025-09-22

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0.01%

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Base score	Version	Severity	Vector	Exploitability	Impact	Score source
4.3	3.1	MEDIUM	`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N` Click to expand Attack vector (AV:L) They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by. 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:C) Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius. Confidentiality (C:N) Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way. Integrity (I:L) Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes. Availability (A:N) Service keeps running; no real outage angle.	2.5	1.4	[email protected]
5.5	3.1	MEDIUM	`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H` Click to expand Attack vector (AV:L) They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by. 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:L) A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin. 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:N) Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way. Integrity (I:N) Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged. Availability (A:H) Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.	1.8	3.6	[email protected]

Base score

Version

Severity

Vector

Exploitability

Impact

Score source

4.3

3.1

MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N Click to expand

Attack vector (AV:L): They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
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:C): Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:N): Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:L): Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:N): Service keeps running; no real outage angle.

2.5

1.4

[email protected]

5.5

3.1

MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Click to expand

Attack vector (AV:L): They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
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:L): A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
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:N): Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N): Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H): Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.

1.8

3.6

[email protected]

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-59800

vendor	priority	summary	link
`alpine`	medium	CVE-2025-59800: 1 source package rows (ghostscript); 114 state rows across 7 repos (3.19-main, 3.20-main, 3.21-main, 3.22-main, 3.23-main, edge-community, edge-main); fixed 3, open 111.	https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2025-59800
`debian`	unimportant	CVE-2025-59800 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (ghostscript), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): open 3, resolved 2.	https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-59800
`redhat`	medium	—	https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-59800
`suse`	medium	—	https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-59800/
`ubuntu`	medium	CVE-2025-59800 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (ghostscript), 8 status rows across 8 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, questing, upstream, xenial): released 4, not-affected 3, needs-triage 1.	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-59800

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-59800

Vendor	Product	Version	Raw CPE
artifex	ghostscript	<= 10.05.1	cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript::::::::

References for CVE-2025-59800

URL	Tags
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708602	Issue Tracking
https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=176cf0188a2294bc307b8caec876f39412e58350	Patch

URL

CVE-2025-59800

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-59800

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-59800

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-59800

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-59800

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-59800

References for CVE-2025-59800