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| 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 |
| Reference id | Reference type | URL |
|---|---|---|
| https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2024-29511.json | ||
| https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-29511 | ||
| https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-29511 | ||
| https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml | ||
| 2295648 | https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2295648 | |
| 7 | https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7 | |
| cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
| CVE-2024-29511 | https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-29511 | |
| ?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3d4cfdc1a44 | https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3d4cfdc1a44 | |
| show_bug.cgi?id=707510 | https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707510 | |
| USN-6897-1 | https://usn.ubuntu.com/6897-1/ |
| Attack Vector (AV) | Attack Complexity (AC) | Privileges Required (PR) | User Interaction (UI) | Scope (S) | Confidentiality Impact (C) | Integrity Impact (I) | Availability Impact (A) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
network adjacent_network local physical |
low high |
none low high |
none required |
unchanged changed |
high low none |
high low none |
high low none |
| Attack Vector (AV) | Attack Complexity (AC) | Privileges Required (PR) | User Interaction (UI) | Scope (S) | Confidentiality Impact (C) | Integrity Impact (I) | Availability Impact (A) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
network adjacent_network local physical |
low high |
none low high |
none required |
unchanged changed |
high low none |
high low none |
high low none |
| Attack Vector (AV) | Attack Complexity (AC) | Privileges Required (PR) | User Interaction (UI) | Scope (S) | Confidentiality Impact (C) | Integrity Impact (I) | Availability Impact (A) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
network adjacent_network local physical |
low high |
none low high |
none required |
unchanged changed |
high low none |
high low none |
high low none |
| Attack Vector (AV) | Attack Complexity (AC) | Privileges Required (PR) | User Interaction (UI) | Scope (S) | Confidentiality Impact (C) | Integrity Impact (I) | Availability Impact (A) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
network adjacent_network local physical |
low high |
none low high |
none required |
unchanged changed |
high low none |
high low none |
high low none |
| Attack Vector (AV) | Attack Complexity (AC) | Privileges Required (PR) | User Interaction (UI) | Scope (S) | Confidentiality Impact (C) | Integrity Impact (I) | Availability Impact (A) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
network adjacent_network local physical |
low high |
none low high |
none required |
unchanged changed |
high low none |
high low none |
high low none |
| 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 |