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CVE-2018-7440

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-02-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-78

Description

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.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 7.0
• Leptonica: through 1.75.3

References

• https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica/issues/303#issuecomment-366472212
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00005.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-01
• https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica/issues/303#issuecomment-366472212
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00005.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-01

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