CVE-2018-3836
An exploitable command injection vulnerability exists in the gplotMakeOutput function of Leptonica 1.74.4.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.43%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
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 3.1
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.43% probability · 73th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-78
- Affected
- leptonica/leptonica · debian/debian linux
- Source
- talos-cna@cisco.com
EPSS 1.4% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00019.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0516Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00019.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0516Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.