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medium 4.3

CVE-2025-7462 json

Artifex GhostPDL New Output File Open Error gdevpdf.c pdf_ferror null pointer dereference

published 2025-07-12 15 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-21205

cvss
4.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 42%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A vulnerability was found in Artifex GhostPDL up to 3989415a5b8e99b9d1b87cc9902bde9b7cdea145. It has been classified as problematic. This affects the function pdf_ferror of the file devices/vector/gdevpdf.c of the component New Output File Open Error Handler. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The identifier of the patch is 619a106ba4c4abed95110f84d5efcd7aee38c7cb. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

Patch / fix

  • ghostscript Debian 12 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8
  • ghostscript Debian 13 10.05.1~dfsg-1+deb13u1
  • ghostscript Debian 14 10.05.1~dfsg-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-7462

  • ghostscript Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.13
  • ghostscript Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.8
  • ghostscript Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Ubuntu 25.10 10.05.0dfsg1-0ubuntu4

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-7462

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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
15 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 42% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 5.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X
CNA 3.1 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:X/RL:O/RC:C
CNA 3.0 4.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:X/RL:O/RC:C
CNA 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:ND/RL:OF/RC:C
CNA 4.0 5.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CNA 3.1 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CNA 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

  • Artifex GhostPDL

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
  • CWE-404 Improper Resource Shutdown or Release

References

Sources

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