What is CVE-2025-27837?

CVE-2025-27837 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Artifex Ghostscript, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2025-03-25.

How severe is CVE-2025-27837?

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

Path Traversal in Artifex Ghostscript

CVE-2025-27837

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0. Access to arbitrary files can occur through a truncated path with invalid UTF-8 characters, for base/gp_mswin.c and base/winrtsup.cpp.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.006 (44.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Artifex Ghostscript
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

cve@mitre.org (Patch, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-27837?: CVE-2025-27837 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Artifex Ghostscript, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2025-03-25.
How severe is CVE-2025-27837?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.