CVE-2024-29511

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 3
Analyzed
Published: 03 Jul 2024, 00:00
Last modified:02 Aug 2024, 01:10

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
v3.1 (cve.org)
EPSS Score
0.5% LOW
0% probability -0.28%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

03 Jul 2024, 00:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
02 Aug 2024, 01:10
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.1, when Tesseract is used for OCR, has a directory traversal issue that allows arbitrary file reading (and writing of error messages to arbitrary files) via OCRLanguage. For example, exploitation can use debug_file /tmp/out and user_patterns_file /etc/passwd.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.50%• Percentile: 66%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-489•Active Debug Code

    The product is released with debugging code still enabled or active.

Affected Systems

  • Unknown•Ghostscript

    < 10.03.1

References (3)