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Path Traversal: '../filedir'

CVE-2025-46646

Severity High
Score 8.4/10

Summary

In Artifex Ghostscript versions through 10.05.0rc1, "decode_utf8" function in `base/gp_utf8.c` mishandles overlong UTF-8 encoding.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-24 - Path Traversal: '../filedir'

The software uses external input to construct a pathname that should be within a restricted directory, but it does not properly neutralize "../" sequences that can resolve to a location that is outside of that directory.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published