Description
In tesseract 2.03 and 2.04, an attacker can rewrite an arbitrary user file by guessing the PID and creating a link to the user's file.
Published: 2019-11-14
Score: 4.7 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2011-1150 In tesseract 2.03 and 2.04, an attacker can rewrite an arbitrary user file by guessing the PID and creating a link to the user's file.
History

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Tesseract-ocr
Tesseract-ocr tesseract Ocr
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:tesseract_project:tesseract:2.03:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:tesseract_project:tesseract:2.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:tesseract-ocr:tesseract_ocr:2.03:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:tesseract-ocr:tesseract_ocr:2.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Tesseract Project
Tesseract Project tesseract
Tesseract-ocr
Tesseract-ocr tesseract Ocr

Subscriptions

Debian Debian Linux
Tesseract-ocr Tesseract Ocr
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T22:14:27.839Z

Reserved: 2011-03-02T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2011-1136

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-11-14T01:15:10.727

Modified: 2026-09-14T14:10:44.773

Link: CVE-2011-1136

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses
  • CWE-59

    Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')