CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-7440
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-02-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-78
Description
An issue was discovered in Leptonica through 1.75.3. The gplotMakeOutput function allows command injection via a $(command) approach in the gplot rootname argument. This issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-3836.
Affected configurations
• leptonica leptonica (<= 1.75.3)
• debian debian linux 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command weakness
References
- https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica/issues/303#issuecomment-366472212 Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00005.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-01 security.gentoo.org
- https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica/issues/303#issuecomment-366472212 Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00005.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-01 security.gentoo.org