2.1
CVSSv2

CVE-2017-18196

Published: 23/02/2018 Updated: 18/12/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.1 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 3.3 | Impact Score: 1.4 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 187
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

Leptonica 1.74.4 constructs unintended pathnames (containing duplicated path components) when operating on files in /tmp subdirectories, which might allow local users to bypass intended file restrictions by leveraging access to a directory located deeper within the /tmp directory tree, as demonstrated by /tmp/ANY/PATH/ANY/PATH/input.tif.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #898439 leptonlib: CVE-2018-7442 Package: src:leptonlib; Maintainer for src:leptonlib is Jeff Breidenbach <jab@debianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 17:21:01 UTC Severity: important Tags: security, upstream Found in version leptonlib/1753 ...