VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-7441

CVSS score7 HIGH
EPSS probability0.25%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-02-23
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-362: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

Primary references