CVE-2018-7440 — OS Command Injection in Leptonica

CWE-78 — OS Command Injection8 documents5 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
OSV7.8
EPSS
1.8%
top 17.21%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Debian LeptonlibLeptonicaDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedFeb 23
Latest updateMay 13

Description

An issue was discovered in Leptonica through 1.75.3. The gplotMakeOutput function allows command injection via a $(command) approach in the gplot rootname argument. This issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-3836.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶debiandebian/leptonlib< leptonlib 1.75.3-3 (bookworm)

Also affects: Debian Linux 7.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-x83x-c4xw-rr5g: An issue was discovered in Leptonica through 1↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2018-7440: An issue was discovered in Leptonica through 1↗2018-02-23
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2018-7440: leptonlib - An issue was discovered in Leptonica through 1.75.3. The gplotMakeOutput functio...↗2018
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💬Community

4
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-7440 leptonica: gplotMakeOutput command injection (CVE-2018-3836 incomplete fix)↗2018-02-27
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-7440 leptonica: gplotMakeOutput command injection (CVE-2018-3836 incomplete fix) [epel-all]↗2018-02-27
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-7440 mingw-leptonica: leptonica: gplotMakeOutput command injection (CVE-2018-3836 incomplete fix) [fedora-all]↗2018-02-27
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-7440 leptonica: gplotMakeOutput command injection (CVE-2018-3836 incomplete fix) [fedora-all]↗2018-02-27
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