Path Traversal and Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability in Leptonica

CVE-2018-7442 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

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.

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