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CVE-2024-29511

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-07-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-489

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.

Affected products

• Artifex Ghostscript: before 10.03.1 — fixed in 10.03.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Artifex Ghostscript 10.03.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707510
• https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3d4cfdc1a44
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707510
• https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3d4cfdc1a44
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7

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