High severity · published Feb 23, 2018
CVE-2018-7441
Leptonica through 1.75.3 uses hardcoded /tmp pathnames, which might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files or have unspecified other impact by creating files in advance or…
7.0
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Leptonica through 1.75.3 uses hardcoded /tmp pathnames, which might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files or have unspecified other impact by creating files in advance or winning a race condition, as demonstrated by /tmp/junk_split_image.ps in prog/splitimage2pdf.c.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
High
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 17% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
LE
Leptonica · Leptonica
through 1.75.3 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-7441
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-7441
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2018/02/msg00054.html
security.gentoo.org
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-01
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