CVE-2018-7441
7.0
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.05%
Description
Leptonica through 1.75.3 uses hardcoded /tmp pathnames, which might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files or have unspecified other impact by creating files in advance or winning a race condition, as demonstrated by /tmp/junk_split_image.ps in prog/splitimage2pdf.c.
How to fix CVE-2018-7441
To remediate CVE-2018-7441, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/leptonlib—upgrade to 1.76.0-1 or later
Is CVE-2018-7441 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 1.76.0-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.0 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |