VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2024-29511

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability1.14%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2024-07-03
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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.

Weakness classification

  • 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0: CWE-489

Primary references