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Vulnerability details: VCID-cv9z-tq9h-u7dq
Vulnerability ID VCID-cv9z-tq9h-u7dq
Aliases CVE-2024-29511
Summary 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 6.8
Risk 3.4
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
System Score Found at
cvssv3 4.4 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2024-29511.json
epss 0.00129 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-29511
epss 0.00129 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-29511
epss 0.00129 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-29511
epss 0.00129 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-29511
epss 0.00129 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-29511
epss 0.00129 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-29511
epss 0.00129 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-29511
epss 0.00129 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-29511
epss 0.00129 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-29511
epss 0.00129 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-29511
epss 0.00129 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-29511
epss 0.00129 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-29511
epss 0.00367 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-29511
epss 0.00367 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-29511
epss 0.00367 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-29511
epss 0.00367 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-29511
epss 0.00367 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-29511
epss 0.00377 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-29511
epss 0.00377 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-29511
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707510
ssvc Track* https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707510
cvssv3.1 4.4 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3d4cfdc1a44
ssvc Track* https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3d4cfdc1a44
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7
ssvc Track* https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2024-29511.json
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Found at https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707510
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:P/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:R/2024-07-05T15:17:09Z/ Found at https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707510
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Found at https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3d4cfdc1a44
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:P/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:R/2024-07-05T15:17:09Z/ Found at https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3d4cfdc1a44
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Found at https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:P/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:R/2024-07-05T15:17:09Z/ Found at https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.33194
EPSS Score 0.00129
Published At July 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T08:44:30.061089+00:00 Ubuntu USN Importer Import https://usn.ubuntu.com/6897-1/ 37.0.0