High severity · published Jul 3, 2024
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…
7.5
CVSS
1.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.1% · higher than 66% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
GH
Ghostscript · Artifex
before 10.03.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-29511
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-29511
Issue Tracking
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707510
Broken Link
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3d4cfdc1a44
Mailing List
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7
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