An exploitable command injection vulnerability exists in the gplotMakeOutput function of Leptonica 1.74.4.

Published 8 y ago 2018-04-24 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

7.0

v3.0 · CNA

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

1.4%

percentile 73%

Public exploits

none known

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.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

1.43% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 73% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
CNA	3.0	7.0	`CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`
NVD	3.1	7.8	`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`
CNA	3.0	7.0	`CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`
NVD	2.0	7.2	`AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C`

Affected products

Dan Bloomberg Leptonica

Classification

Weakness

CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command

References

lists.debian.org /debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00019.html · mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, x_transferred
talosintelligence.com /vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0516 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2018-3836
NVD: CVE-2018-3836

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