CVE-2018-3836

An exploitable command injection vulnerability exists in the gplotMakeOutput function of Leptonica 1.74.4. A specially crafted gplot rootname argument can cause a command injection resulting in arbitrary code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious path as input to an application that passes attacker data to this function to trigger this vulnerability.

CVSS v3.1

7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v3.0

7.0 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

7.2 HIGHAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS

1.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 71th percentile

Published

2018-04-24

Updated

2024-09-16

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0516

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2018-3833
• CVE-2018-3839
• CVE-2018-3815
• CVE-2018-3840
• CVE-2018-3814
• CVE-2018-3841