cve/2018/CVE-2018-3836.md

### [CVE-2018-3836](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-3836)
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### Description

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.

### POC

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

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.