FKIE_CVE-2018-3836

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-04-24 19:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:57
Severity
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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.
References
talos-cna@cisco.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00019.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
talos-cna@cisco.comhttps://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0516Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00019.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0516Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
leptonica leptonica 1.74.4
debian debian_linux 7.0
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