High severity · published Apr 24, 2018
CVE-2018-3836
An exploitable command injection vulnerability exists in the gplotMakeOutput function of Leptonica 1.74.4
7.8
CVSS
1.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An exploitable command injection vulnerability exists in the gplotMakeOutput function of Leptonica 1.74.4. A specially crafted gplot rootname argument can cause a command injection resulting in arbitrary code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious path as input to an application that passes attacker data to this function to trigger this vulnerability.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.4% · higher than 73% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
7.0 · source: NVD
LE
Leptonica · Leptonica
1.74.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-3836
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-3836
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00019.html
Exploit
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0516
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