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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.3

CVE-2025-59798 json

Artifex Ghostscript through 10.05.1 has a stack-based buffer overflow in pdf_write_cmap in devices/vector/gdevpdtw.c.

published 2025-09-22 13 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-30394

cvss
4.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 10%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Artifex Ghostscript through 10.05.1 has a stack-based buffer overflow in pdf_write_cmap in devices/vector/gdevpdtw.c.

Patch / fix

  • ghostscript Debian 12 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8
  • ghostscript Debian 13 10.05.1~dfsg-1+deb13u1
  • ghostscript Debian 14 10.06.0~dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-59798

  • ghostscript Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.13
  • ghostscript Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.8
  • ghostscript Ubuntu 25.10 10.05.0dfsg1-0ubuntu4
  • ghostscript Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.14+esm10
  • ghostscript Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.18+esm5
  • ghostscript Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.15+esm2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-59798

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • ghostscript SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 9.52-150000.211.1
  • ghostscript SLES LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5 9.52-23.97.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:4148-1SUSE-SU-2025:4125-1

  • ghostscript openSUSE Leap 16.0 10.06.0-160000.1.1
  • ghostscript openSUSE Tumbleweed 10.06.0-2.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:20592-1openSUSE-SU-2025:15707-1

  • ghostscript Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23 10.06.0-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2025-59798

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-59798 updated cvss 4.0

Artifex Ghostscript: Artifex Ghostscript: Denial of Service via stack-based buffer overflow in pdf_write_cmap

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ghostscript, ghostscript-gtk Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 libgs, ghostscript, ghostscript-gtk, ghostscript-cups Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 libgs, ghostscript, ghostscript-x11, ghostscript-tools-fonts, ghostscript-tools-dvipdf, ghostscript-tools-printing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 libgs, ghostscript, ghostscript-x11, ghostscript-tools-fonts, ghostscript-tools-dvipdf, ghostscript-tools-printing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 ghostscript
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
13 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 10% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • bugs.ghostscript.com https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708539 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Artifex Ghostscript

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.