cve.bz

CVE-2024-29511

7.5 highEPSS 1.1%

High (7.5) in artifex ghostscript. EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.5 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS
1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 66% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-489
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

Check your stackJSON