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CVE-2024-29511

Date: July 2, 2024

Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.1, when Tesseract is used for OCR, has a directory traversal issue that allows arbitrary file reading (and writing of error messages to arbitrary files) via OCRLanguage. For example, exploitation can use debug_file /tmp/out and user_patterns_file /etc/passwd.

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (6)

https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3d4cfdc1a44
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-29511
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-29511
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707510
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2024-29511

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Active Debug Code

CWE-489

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): NONE

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