7.8
CVSSv3

CVE-2018-3836

Published: 24/04/2018 Updated: 03/02/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 641
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

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.

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leptonica leptonica 1.74.4

debian debian linux 7.0

Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #889759 leptonlib: CVE-2018-3836: gplotMakeOutput Command Injection Vulnerability Package: src:leptonlib; Maintainer for src:leptonlib is Jeff Breidenbach <jab@debianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 21:03:01 UTC Severity: grave Tags: security ...
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 ...
Debian Bug report logs - #891932 CVE-2018-7440 gplotMakeOutput() command injection vulnerability Package: src:leptonlib; Maintainer for src:leptonlib is Jeff Breidenbach <jab@debianorg>; Reported by: "Santiago RR" <santiagorr@riseupnet> Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 18:18:01 UTC Severity: grave Tags: patch, security Fo ...