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. For example, exploitation can use debug_file /tmp/out and user_patterns_file /etc/passwd.
Published:Jul 3, 2024
Last Modified:Apr 28, 2025
EPS:Jul 3, 2024
EPSS Score:0.00367
CVSS Score:7.5
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Artifex
Product
Ghostscript
Artifex
Ghostscript
Exploits
No exploit reference
Common Weakness Enumeration
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Related CVEs
References
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
