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FKIE_CVE-2024-29511

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-07-03 19:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 07:22
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707510Issue Tracking
cve@mitre.orghttps://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3d4cfdc1a44Broken Link
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7Mailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707510Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3d4cfdc1a44Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7Mailing List
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
artifex ghostscript *
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