CVE-2025-27837

CRITICALPre-NVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2025-03-25. CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1 baseline 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory
Trending — 3 sources updated this week

Also known asEUVD-2025-8086 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-rmm8-wf49-vvww (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.6%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
59
EG Risk 59/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.6% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
0.6%
EPSS %ILE
49th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.6% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

March 25, 2025

Last Modified

June 23, 2026

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated Oct 31, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

708238 – Access to arbitrary files through truncated path with invalid UTF-8

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708238

Affected Packages

(6 across 6 ecosystems)
Alpine:v3.18(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
ghostscript—
  • every version up to 10.05.0: fixed in 10.05.0
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Alpine:v3.19(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
ghostscript—
  • every version up to 10.05.0-r0: fixed in 10.05.0-r0
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Alpine:v3.20(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
ghostscript—
  • every version up to 10.05.0-r0: fixed in 10.05.0-r0
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Alpine:v3.21(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
ghostscript—
  • every version up to 10.05.0-r0: fixed in 10.05.0-r0
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Alpine:v3.22(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
ghostscript—
  • every version up to 10.05.0-r0: fixed in 10.05.0-r0
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Alpine:v3.23(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
ghostscript—
  • every version up to 10.05.0-r0: fixed in 10.05.0-r0
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 21× in last 7d / 76× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 98 of 235 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 2 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 137 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-02 16:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  2. 2026-11-02 00:53 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-11-02 00:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rmm8-wf49-vvww · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  4. 2026-11-01 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  5. 2026-11-01 02:13 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-11-01 02:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rmm8-wf49-vvww · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  7. 2026-10-31 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  8. 2026-10-31 03:31 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-31 03:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rmm8-wf49-vvww · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  10. 2026-10-30 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  11. 2026-10-30 04:50 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-30 04:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rmm8-wf49-vvww · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  13. 2026-10-29 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  14. 2026-10-29 06:09 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-29 06:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rmm8-wf49-vvww · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  16. 2026-10-28 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  17. 2026-10-28 07:28 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-28 07:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rmm8-wf49-vvww · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  19. 2026-10-27 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  20. 2026-10-27 08:48 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-27 08:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rmm8-wf49-vvww · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  22. 2026-10-26 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  23. 2026-10-26 08:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rmm8-wf49-vvww · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  24. 2026-10-25 16:38 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-10-25 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-25 09:43 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-25 09:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rmm8-wf49-vvww · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  3. 2026-10-24 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  4. 2026-10-24 11:02 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-24 11:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rmm8-wf49-vvww · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  6. 2026-10-23 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  7. 2026-10-23 12:18 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-23 12:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rmm8-wf49-vvww · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  9. 2026-10-22 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  10. 2026-10-22 13:32 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-22 13:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rmm8-wf49-vvww · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  12. 2026-10-21 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  13. 2026-10-21 14:44 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-21 14:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rmm8-wf49-vvww · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  15. 2026-10-20 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  16. 2026-10-20 15:34 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-10-20 15:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rmm8-wf49-vvww · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  18. 2026-10-19 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  19. 2026-10-19 16:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rmm8-wf49-vvww · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  20. 2026-10-18 17:43 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-18 17:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rmm8-wf49-vvww · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  22. 2026-10-18 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  23. 2026-10-18 05:41 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-10-17 19:03 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-10-17 19:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rmm8-wf49-vvww · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  26. 2026-10-17 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
  27. 2026-10-16 20:20 UTCEG score recompute
  28. 2026-10-16 20:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rmm8-wf49-vvww · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  29. 2026-10-16 16:38 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
  30. 2026-10-15 17:47 UTCEG score recompute
  31. 2026-10-15 17:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rmm8-wf49-vvww · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  32. 2026-10-15 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
  33. 2026-10-14 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
  34. 2026-10-14 11:41 UTCEG score recompute
  35. 2026-10-14 11:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rmm8-wf49-vvww · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  36. 2026-10-13 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
  37. 2026-10-13 10:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rmm8-wf49-vvww · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  38. 2026-10-12 17:14 UTCEG score recompute
  39. 2026-10-12 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
  40. 2026-10-12 11:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rmm8-wf49-vvww · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  41. 2026-10-11 20:46 UTCEG score recompute
  42. 2026-10-11 18:56 UTCEG score recompute
  43. 2026-10-11 15:34 UTCEG score recompute
  44. 2026-10-11 13:47 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
  45. 2026-10-10 19:59 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
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  52. 2026-10-03 14:24 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
  53. 2026-10-02 19:25 UTCOSV refresh
  54. 2026-10-01 19:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  55. 2026-09-30 15:02 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2025-27837?
CVE-2025-27837 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on March 25, 2025. 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.
When was the CVE record for CVE-2025-27837 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2025-27837 was published on March 25, 2025. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of June 23, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2025-27837 actively exploited?
CVE-2025-27837 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (49th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2025-27837?
CVE-2025-27837 has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 (CISA-ADP / Vulnrichment enrichment; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2025-27837?
A fix for CVE-2025-27837 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory.

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