CVE-2018-7441

CVSS V2 Medium 4.4 CVSS V3 High 7

Description

Leptonica through 1.75.3 uses hardcoded /tmp pathnames, which might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files or have unspecified other impact by creating files in advance or winning a race condition, as demonstrated by /tmp/junk_split_image.ps in prog/splitimage2pdf.c.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2018-7441

Assigner
cve@mitre.org

Vulnerability Status
Analyzed

Published Version
2018-02-23T21:29:00

Last Modified Date
2018-03-19T16:17:28

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-362	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/362.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
cpe:2.3:a:leptonica:leptonica::::::::	1	OR		1.75.3

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Access Vector
LOCAL

Access Compatibility
MEDIUM

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL

Integrity Impact
PARTIAL

Availability Impact
PARTIAL

Base Score
4.4

Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
3.4

Impact Score
6.4

CVSS Version 3

Version
3.0

Vector String
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL

Attack Compatibility
HIGH

Privileges Required
LOW

User Interaction
NONE

Scope
UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact
HIGH

Availability Impact
HIGH

Base Score
7

Base Severity
HIGH

Exploitability Score
1

Impact Score
5.9

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2018/02/msg00054.html	Mailing List Third Party Advisory

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-7441
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-7441

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 18:47:06				Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 02:41:44	2018-02-23T21:29Z	2018-02-23T21:29:00	CVE Published Date	updated
2022-12-03 02:41:44		2018-03-19T16:17:28	CVE Modified Date	updated
2022-12-03 02:41:44		Analyzed	Vulnerability Status	updated