CVE-2024-29511

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-489

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Jul 3, 2024
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Analyzed

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