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CVE-2024-29511

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.

Published

2024-07-03T19:15:03.430

Last Modified

2025-04-28T17:12:15.530

Status

Analyzed

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 7.5 (HIGH)

Weaknesses

Type: Secondary
CWE-489

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	artifex	ghostscript	< 10.03.1	Yes

References

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707510 Issue Tracking ([email protected])
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3d4cfdc1a44 Broken Link ([email protected])
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7 Mailing List ([email protected])
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707510 Issue Tracking (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3d4cfdc1a44 Broken Link (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7 Mailing List (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)