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 files) via OCRLanguage.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.14%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
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 3.1
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 1.14% probability · 65th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-489
- Affected
- artifex/ghostscript
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707510Issue Tracking
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3d4cfdc1a44Broken Link
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7Mailing List
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707510Issue Tracking
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3d4cfdc1a44Broken Link
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7Mailing List
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.