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CVE-2024-29511

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.

Severity
High 7.5
Published
3 Jul 2024
Last changed
17 Jun 2026
Added to UpHeron
1 Nov 2026
Fixed in
10.03.1
Sources
NVD

Affected software

SoftwareAffected versions
GhostscriptServers and applications · cpe:a:artifex:ghostscript
  • Every version before 10.03.1

References

  • NVD https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-29511
  • CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-29511