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CVE-2007-6725

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-6725 describes a buffer underflow vulnerability in the CCITTFax decoding filter of Ghostscript versions 8.60 and 8.61, triggered by specially crafted PDF files. This flaw allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and potentially execute arbitrary code. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it is considered highly severe due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and potential for partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage for this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.61CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ghostscript:ghostscript:8.61:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.84%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0484 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: ghostscript-0:7.05-32.1.20
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: ghostscript-0:7.07-33.2.el4_7.8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: ghostscript-0:8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2007-6725Moderate

ghostscript: DoS (crash) in CCITTFax decoding filter

Feb 19, 2007

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00003.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Exploit
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Exploit
secunia.com / advisories/34726
secunia.com / advisories/34729
secunia.com / advisories/34732
secunia.com / advisories/35416
secunia.com / advisories/35559
secunia.com / advisories/35569
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9507
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
support.avaya.com / elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-155.htm
usn.ubuntu.com / 757-1
wiki.rpath.com / Advisories:rPSA-2009-0060
mail-archive.com / fedora-package-announce%40redhat.com/msg11830.html
mandriva.com / security/advisories
mandriva.com / security/advisories
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2009/04/01/10
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2009-0420.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2009-0421.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/502757/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/34337
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/1708