7.0high
CVE-2018-7441
Leptonica through 1.75.3 uses hardcoded /tmp pathnames, which might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files or have unspecified othe…
Published 8 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON
CVSS
7.0
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
0.3%
percentile 17%
Public exploits
0
none known
Summary
Leptonica through 1.75.3 uses hardcoded /tmp pathnames, which might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files or have unspecified other impact by creating files in advance or winning a race condition, as demonstrated by /tmp/junk_split_image.ps in prog/splitimage2pdf.c.
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
0.25% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 17% of all scored CVEs.
CVSS scores
| Assigned by | Version | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVD | 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 | 4.4 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
Classification
- Weakness
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization
References
- lists.debian.org /debian-lts/2018/02/msg00054.html · x_transferred
- security.gentoo.org /glsa/202312-01 · vendor-advisory, x_transferred
Sources
- CVE List: CVE-2018-7441
- NVD: CVE-2018-7441
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