CVE-2025-46646 MEDIUM

CVE-2025-46646

Vendor Artifex

Product Ghostscript

Weakness CWE-24

Published April 26, 2025

Last update April 29, 2025

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CVSS base score

4.5/10

Attack vector Local

Attack complexity High

Privileges required None

User interaction None

Confidentiality Low

Integrity Low

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

April 26, 2025 CVE published

April 29, 2025 Record updated

External resources

03References

NVD — National Vulnerability Database https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-46646 CWE — Common Weakness Enumeration https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/24.html

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