UBUNTU-CVE-2024-29511

Advisory lineage Upstream: 1 Downstream: 1
Upstream
CVE-2024-29511
Downstream
USN-6897-1
Published: 03 Jul 2024, 19:15
Last modified:22 Apr 2026, 14:48

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
3.1 (osv_ubuntu)
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

03 Jul 2024, 19:15
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
22 Apr 2026, 14:48
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

Affected Systems

  • ubuntu•ghostscript

    < 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.9 | < 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.3

References (4)