CVE-2024-29511

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.

References

https://www.securityweek.com/attackers-exploiting-remote-code-execution-vulnerability-in-ghostscript/

https://securityaffairs.com/165449/hacking/ghostscript-vulnerability-cve-2024-29510.html?web_view=true

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7

https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3d4cfdc1a44

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707510

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3