What is CVE-2018-7440?

CVE-2018-7440 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Leptonica, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2018-02-23.

How severe is CVE-2018-7440?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

RCE in Leptonica

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.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

EPSS: 0.037 (88.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Leptonica
Debian Debian_linux — versions 7.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-78 — OS Command Injection

References

cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-7440?: CVE-2018-7440 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Leptonica, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2018-02-23.
How severe is CVE-2018-7440?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.