CVE-2024-29511

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.

CVSS v3 7.5 HIGH

7.5^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact NONE

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707510	Issue Tracking
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3d4cfdc1a44	Broken Link
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7	Mailing List
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707510	Issue Tracking
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3d4cfdc1a44	Broken Link
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7	Mailing List

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

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

History

28 Apr 2025, 17:12

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CPE		cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript::::::::
References	~~() https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707510 -~~	() https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707510 - Issue Tracking
References	~~() https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3d4cfdc1a44 -~~	() https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3d4cfdc1a44 - Broken Link
References	~~() https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7 -~~	() https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7 - Mailing List
First Time		Artifex Artifex ghostscript

21 Nov 2024, 09:08

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References	~~() https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707510 -~~	() https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707510 -
References	~~() https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3d4cfdc1a44 -~~	() https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3d4cfdc1a44 -
References	~~() https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7 -~~	() https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7 -

08 Jul 2024, 14:18

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CVSS	v2 : ~~unknown~~ v3 : ~~unknown~~	v2 : unknown v3 : 7.5
CWE		CWE-489

03 Jul 2024, 19:15

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2024-07-03 19:15

Updated : 2025-04-28 17:12

NVD link : CVE-2024-29511

Mitre link : CVE-2024-29511

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2024-29511

JSON object : View

Products Affected

artifex

ghostscript

CWE

CWE-489

Active Debug Code

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7.5 /10