CVE-2018-7440

CRITICAL

leptonica < 1.75.3 - OS Command Injection via gplot rootname Argument

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in Leptonica through 1.75.3. The gplotMakeOutput function allows command injection via a $(command) approach in the gplot rootname argument. This issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-3836.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00005.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-01

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0380
EPSS Percentile 88.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-78
Status published
Products (2)
debian/debian_linux 7.0
leptonica/leptonica < 1.75.3
Published Feb 23, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026