CVE-2018-7440

An issue was discovered in Leptonica through 1.75.3. The gplotMakeOutput function allows command injection via a $(command) approach in the gplot rootname argument. This issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-3836.

Score

CVSS 3.0 9.8 Critical

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2018-02-23

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-78

Affected products

• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Leptonica (Leptonica)

References

• https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica/issues/303#issuecomment-366472212
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00005.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-01