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.
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

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

History

28 Apr 2025, 17:12

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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
CPE cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
First Time Artifex
Artifex ghostscript

21 Nov 2024, 09:08

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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

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CWE CWE-489
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : unknown
v3 : 7.5

03 Jul 2024, 19:15

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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


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Products Affected

artifex

  • ghostscript
CWE
CWE-489

Active Debug Code