{"id":"CVE-2018-3836","state":"PUBLISHED","title":"An exploitable command injection vulnerability exists in the gplotMakeOutput function of Leptonica 1.74.4. A specially crafted gplot rootname argument can cause a command injection","description":"An exploitable command injection vulnerability exists in the gplotMakeOutput function of Leptonica 1.74.4. A specially crafted gplot rootname argument can cause a command injection resulting in arbitrary code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious path as input to an application that passes attacker data to this function to trigger this vulnerability.","publishedAt":"2018-04-24T19:00:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2024-09-16T16:22:40.419Z","severity":{"score":7,"label":"High","version":"3.0","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","source":"talos"},"assigner":"talos","products":["Dan Bloomberg Leptonica"],"affected":[{"vendor":"Dan Bloomberg","product":"Leptonica","versions":[{"version":"1.74.4","status":"affected"}]}],"references":["https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00019.html","https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0516"],"weaknesses":[],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-29T19:44:49.047Z","source":{"repository":"CVEProject/cvelistV5","path":"cves/2018/3xxx/CVE-2018-3836.json","commit":"556c9d3a8cd17e218bb8e452ba7cd619a384ff47"},"raw":{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.1","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2018-3836","state":"PUBLISHED","datePublished":"2018-04-24T19:00:00.000Z","dateUpdated":"2024-09-16T16:22:40.419Z","assignerShortName":"talos","assignerOrgId":"b86d76f8-0f8a-4a96-a78d-d8abfc7fc29b","dateReserved":"2018-01-02T00:00:00.000Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"An exploitable command injection vulnerability exists in the gplotMakeOutput function of Leptonica 1.74.4. A specially crafted gplot rootname argument can cause a command injection resulting in arbitrary code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious path as input to an application that passes attacker data to this function to trigger this vulnerability."}],"affected":[{"vendor":"Dan Bloomberg","product":"Leptonica","versions":[{"version":"1.74.4","status":"affected"}]}],"references":[{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00019.html","name":"[debian-lts-announce] 20180215 [SECURITY] [DLA 1284-1] leptonlib security update","tags":["mailing-list","x_refsource_MLIST"]},{"url":"https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0516","tags":["x_refsource_MISC"]}],"metrics":[{"cvssV3_0":{"attackComplexity":"HIGH","attackVector":"LOCAL","availabilityImpact":"HIGH","baseScore":7,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","confidentialityImpact":"HIGH","integrityImpact":"HIGH","privilegesRequired":"LOW","scope":"UNCHANGED","userInteraction":"NONE","vectorString":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.0"}}],"problemTypes":[{"descriptions":[{"description":"arbitrary code execution","lang":"en","type":"text"}]}],"providerMetadata":{"shortName":"talos","dateUpdated":"2022-04-19T18:04:15.000Z","orgId":"b86d76f8-0f8a-4a96-a78d-d8abfc7fc29b"},"datePublic":"2018-01-22T00:00:00.000Z","x_legacyV4Record":{"CVE_data_meta":{"ASSIGNER":"talos-cna@cisco.com","DATE_PUBLIC":"2018-01-22T00:00:00","ID":"CVE-2018-3836","STATE":"PUBLIC"},"affects":{"vendor":{"vendor_data":[{"product":{"product_data":[{"product_name":"Leptonica","version":{"version_data":[{"version_value":"1.74.4"}]}}]},"vendor_name":"Dan Bloomberg"}]}},"data_format":"MITRE","data_type":"CVE","data_version":"4.0","description":{"description_data":[{"lang":"eng","value":"An exploitable command injection vulnerability exists in the gplotMakeOutput function of Leptonica 1.74.4. A specially crafted gplot rootname argument can cause a command injection resulting in arbitrary code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious path as input to an application that passes attacker data to this function to trigger this vulnerability."}]},"impact":{"cvss":{"baseScore":7,"baseSeverity":"High","vectorString":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.0"}},"problemtype":{"problemtype_data":[{"description":[{"lang":"eng","value":"arbitrary code execution"}]}]},"references":{"reference_data":[{"name":"[debian-lts-announce] 20180215 [SECURITY] [DLA 1284-1] leptonlib security update","refsource":"MLIST","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00019.html"},{"name":"https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0516","refsource":"MISC","url":"https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0516"}]}}},"adp":[{"title":"CVE Program Container","references":[{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00019.html","name":"[debian-lts-announce] 20180215 [SECURITY] [DLA 1284-1] leptonlib security update","tags":["mailing-list","x_refsource_MLIST","x_transferred"]},{"url":"https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0516","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred"]}],"providerMetadata":{"shortName":"CVE","orgId":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108","dateUpdated":"2024-08-05T04:57:24.110Z"}}]}}}