CVE-2024-29511 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

Published: 2024-07-03

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Ubuntu USN	USN-6897-1	Ghostscript vulnerabilities

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00781.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707510
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3d4cfdc1a44
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-29511
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-29511
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7

History

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 17:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Artifex Artifex ghostscript
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript::::::::
Vendors & Products		Artifex Artifex ghostscript

Subscriptions

Artifex Ghostscript

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2024-07-03T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-02T01:10:55.453Z

Reserved: 2024-03-19T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2024-29511

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T01:10:55.453Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-07-03T19:15:03.430

Modified: 2025-04-28T17:12:15.530

Link: CVE-2024-29511

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2024-07-03T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2024-29511 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

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