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CVE-2018-7442

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% 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-22

Description

An issue was discovered in Leptonica through 1.75.3. The gplotMakeOutput function does not block '/' characters in the gplot rootname argument, potentially leading to path traversal and arbitrary file overwrite.

Affected products

• Leptonica: through 1.75.3

References

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2018/02/msg00086.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-01
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2018/02/msg00086.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-01

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