CVE-2018-3836

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

An exploitable command injection vulnerability exists in the gplotMakeOutput function of Leptonica 1.74.4. A specially crafted gplot rootname argument can cause a command injection resulting in arbitrary code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious path as input to an application that passes attacker data to this function to trigger this vulnerability.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-78

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
Dan Bloomberg	Leptonica	1.74.4

References

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00019.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0516Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00019.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0516Exploit, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Apr 24, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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