Link Following Affecting tesseract package, versions <2.04-2.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.46% (37th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ECHOLATEST-TESSERACT-18674704
  • published12 Aug 2026
  • disclosed14 Nov 2019

Introduced: 14 Nov 2019

CVE-2011-1136  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Echo:latest tesseract to version 2.04-2.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tesseract package and not the tesseract package as distributed by Echo. See How to fix? for Echo:latest relevant fixed versions and status.

In tesseract 2.03 and 2.04, an attacker can rewrite an arbitrary user file by guessing the PID and creating a link to the user's file.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1