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.
References
Link | Resource |
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https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707510 | Issue Tracking |
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3d4cfdc1a44 | Broken Link |
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7 | Mailing List |
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707510 | Issue Tracking |
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3d4cfdc1a44 | Broken Link |
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7 | Mailing List |
Configurations
History
28 Apr 2025, 17:12
Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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CPE | cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
First Time |
Artifex ghostscript
Artifex |
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References | () https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707510 - Issue Tracking | |
References | () https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3d4cfdc1a44 - Broken Link | |
References | () https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7 - Mailing List |
21 Nov 2024, 09:08
Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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References | () https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707510 - | |
References | () https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3d4cfdc1a44 - | |
References | () https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7 - |
08 Jul 2024, 14:18
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CWE | CWE-489 | |
CVSS |
v2 : v3 : |
v2 : unknown
v3 : 7.5 |
05 Jul 2024, 12:55
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Summary |
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03 Jul 2024, 19:15
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New CVE |
Information
Published : 2024-07-03 19:15
Updated : 2025-04-28 17:12
NVD link : CVE-2024-29511
Mitre link : CVE-2024-29511
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2024-29511
JSON object : View
Products Affected
artifex
- ghostscript
CWE
CWE-489
Active Debug Code