What is CVE-2025-27832?

CVE-2025-27832 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Artifex Ghostscript, classified under Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input (Classic Buffer Overflow). CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2025-03-25.

How severe is CVE-2025-27832?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2025-27832 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Buffer overflow in Artifex Ghostscript

CVE-2025-27832

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0. The NPDL device has a Compression buffer overflow for contrib/japanese/gdevnpdl.c.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2025-03-25 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.008 (57.7th percentile), scored 2026-10-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 58th percentile — 57.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.008 · newest: 0.008 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Artifex Ghostscript

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-120 — Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input (Classic Buffer Overflow)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

w4zu/Debian_

References

bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi (Patch, Issue Tracking)
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-27832?: CVE-2025-27832 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Artifex Ghostscript, classified under Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input (Classic Buffer Overflow). CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2025-03-25.
How severe is CVE-2025-27832?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2025-27832 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.