Command injection in Leptonica - CVE-2018-7440
Published: March 21, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU11188
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 9.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-7440
CWE-ID: CWE-77
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The weakness exists in the gplotMakeOutput function due to insufficient validation of commands used in the gplot rootname argument. A remote attacker can execute arbitrary code.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.
The weakness exists in the gplotMakeOutput function due to insufficient validation of commands used in the gplot rootname argument. A remote attacker can execute arbitrary code.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.
Affected software
Leptonica
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
leptonica
media-libs/leptonica
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
leptonica
media-libs/leptonica
How to mitigate CVE-2018-7440
Install update from vendor's website.
leptonica - update to 1.76.0-1.fc28
media-libs/leptonica - update to 1.81.0
media-libs/leptonica - update to 1.81.0