CVE-2018-7442 — Path Traversal in Leptonica

CWE-22 — Path Traversal8 documents5 sources
Severity
9.1CRITICALNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 57.56%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Debian LeptonlibLeptonica
Timeline
PublishedFeb 23
Latest updateMay 14

Description

An issue was discovered in Leptonica through 1.75.3. The gplotMakeOutput function does not block '/' characters in the gplot rootname argument, potentially leading to path traversal and arbitrary file overwrite.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.2

Affected Packages2 packages

▶debiandebian/leptonlib< leptonlib 1.76.0-1 (bookworm)

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-fmvw-q9g6-wfgh: An issue was discovered in Leptonica through 1↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2018-7442: An issue was discovered in Leptonica through 1↗2018-02-23
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2018-7442: leptonlib - An issue was discovered in Leptonica through 1.75.3. The gplotMakeOutput functio...↗2018
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💬Community

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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-7442 leptonica: directory traversal in gplot rootname argument [epel-all]↗2018-02-27
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-7442 leptonica: directory traversal in gplot rootname argument [fedora-all]↗2018-02-27
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-7442 mingw-leptonica: leptonica: directory traversal in gplot rootname argument [fedora-all]↗2018-02-27
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-7442 leptonica: directory traversal in gplot rootname argument↗2018-02-27
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