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.
- Affected products
- Artifex Ghostscript, Debian, Linuxmint, Ubuntu
- Artifex Ghostscript
- < 10.03.1
- Fix
- Available
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 HIGH
- EPSS
- 1.1% (63th percentile)
- Weakness
- CWE-489
- NVD status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-07-03
CVE-2024-29511 at NVD
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