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CVE-2011-1136

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-11-14 · updated 2026-09-14
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

In tesseract 2.03 and 2.04, an attacker can rewrite an arbitrary user file by guessing the PID and creating a link to the user's file.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
• tesseract-ocr tesseract: 2.03, 2.04

References

• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612032
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tesseract/+bug/607297
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1136
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612032
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tesseract/+bug/607297
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1136

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