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CVE-2018-3836
An exploitable command injection vulnerability exists in the gplotMakeOutput function of Leptonica 1.74.4. A specially crafted gplot…
High7.0EPSS 1.4%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- talos
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| talosCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | High7.0 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.4% · top 27% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.0.
Weakness
- arbitrary code execution
- CWE-78 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-78 and its CVEs
Affected products
- affected 1.74.4
References (2)
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180215 [SECURITY] [DLA 1284-1] leptonlib security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0516 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
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