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CVE-2018-3836

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-04-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-78

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.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 7.0
• Leptonica: 1.74.4

References

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00019.html
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0516
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00019.html
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0516

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