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CVE-2025-46646

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-46646 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Artifex Ghostscript versions prior to 10.05.0, stemming from an incomplete fix for a previous issue. It involves improper handling of overlong UTF-8 encoding in the decode_utf8 function. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.5, indicating a local attack vector with high attack complexity, potentially leading to low confidentiality and integrity impacts. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 10.05.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 0, < 10.05.0CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.4
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.18%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
7.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0018 is in the 4th percentile among its peer group of 1,595 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Vendor Patches (5)

redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Fixed in: ghostscript
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: ghostscript
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: ghostscript
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: ghostscript
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: ghostscript

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2025-46646Moderate

Ghostscript: Mishandling of Overlong UTF-8 Encoding in Artifex Ghostscript's decode_utf8 Function

Apr 26, 2025

References

bugs.ghostscript.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue Tracking
cgit.ghostscript.com / cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit
Patch