CVE-2018-7442

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-7442
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-7442.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-7442
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-02-23T21:29:00.710Z
Modified
2025-11-14T08:58:39.787985Z
Severity
  • 9.1 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue was discovered in Leptonica through 1.75.3. The gplotMakeOutput function does not block '/' characters in the gplot rootname argument, potentially leading to path traversal and arbitrary file overwrite.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/danbloomberg/leptonica

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/danbloomberg/leptonica
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
ee301cb2029db8a6289c5295daa42bba7715e99a

Affected versions

1.*

1.74.0
1.74.1
1.74.2
1.74.3
1.74.4
1.75.0
1.75.1
1.75.2
1.75.3

v1.*

v1.42
v1.44
v1.46
v1.48
v1.50
v1.52
v1.54
v1.56
v1.58
v1.60
v1.61
v1.62
v1.63
v1.64
v1.65
v1.66
v1.67
v1.68
v1.69
v1.70
v1.71
v1.72
v1.73
v1.74.3

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-7442.json"