ghsa-g9m4-vfq7-w439
Vulnerability from github
Published
2024-07-03 21:39
Modified
2024-07-08 15:31
Details

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.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2024-29511"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-489"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2024-07-03T19:15:03Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "GHSA-g9m4-vfq7-w439",
  "modified": "2024-07-08T15:31:55Z",
  "published": "2024-07-03T21:39:43Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-29511"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707510"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3d4cfdc1a44"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}


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