SB2025060230 - Fedora 42 update for ghostscript
Published: June 2, 2025
Security Bulletin ID
SB2025060230
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Information disclosure
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Cleartext storage of sensitive information (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-48708)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to read PDF documents protected with a password.
The vulnerability exists due to an error within the gs_lib_ctx_stash_sanitized_arg() function in base/gslibctx.c caused by incorrect sanitization of arguments for the # case. As a result, a created PDF document includes its password in cleartext.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.