What is CVE-2018-3836?

CVE-2018-3836 is a high-severity vulnerability in Dan Bloomberg Leptonica, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2018-04-24.

How severe is CVE-2018-3836?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

RCE in Dan Bloomberg Leptonica

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.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

EPSS: 0.015 (70.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Dan Bloomberg Leptonica — versions 1.74.4
Leptonica — versions 1.74.4
Debian Debian_linux — versions 7.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-78 — OS Command Injection

References

talos-cna@cisco.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
talos-cna@cisco.com (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-3836?: CVE-2018-3836 is a high-severity vulnerability in Dan Bloomberg Leptonica, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2018-04-24.
How severe is CVE-2018-3836?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.