CVE-2024-29511 (GCVE-0-2024-29511)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-03 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-02 01:10
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-07-05 15:17 UTC
CWE
- n/a
- CWE-489 - Active Debug Code
Assigner
References
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| artifex | afpl_ghostscript |
Affected:
0 , < 10.03.1
(custom)
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:afpl_ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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