cve/2024/CVE-2024-29511.md

CVE-2024-29511

Description

Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.1, when Tesseract is used for OCR, has a directory traversal issue that allows arbitrary file reading (and writing of error messages to arbitrary files) via OCRLanguage. For example, exploitation can use debug_file /tmp/out and user_patterns_file /etc/passwd.

POC

Reference

• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707510
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7

Github

No PoCs found on GitHub currently.