CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-29511
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-07-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-489
Description
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 configurations
• artifex ghostscript (< 10.03.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-489 Active Debug Code weakness
References
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707510 Issue Tracking
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3d4cfdc1a44 Broken Link
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7 Mailing List
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707510 Issue Tracking
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3d4cfdc1a44 Broken Link
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7 Mailing List