CVE-2018-7441

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.

CVSS v3 7.0 HIGH
CVSS v2.0 4.4 MEDIUM

7.0^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector : AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitability : 1.0 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity HIGH

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

4.4^/10

CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

Vector : AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Exploitability : 3.4 / Impact : 6.4

Access Vector LOCAL

Access Complexity MEDIUM

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2018/02/msg00054.html	Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-01

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:leptonica:leptonica:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

18 Dec 2023, 08:15

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References		() https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-01 -

Information

Published : 2018-02-23 21:29

Updated : 2023-12-18 08:15

NVD link : CVE-2018-7441

Mitre link : CVE-2018-7441

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2018-7441

JSON object : View

Products Affected

leptonica

leptonica

CWE

CWE-362

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

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