Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') Affecting ghostscript package, versions [,10.03.1)
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- published8 Jul 2024
- disclosed3 Jul 2024
- creditThomas Rinsma
Introduced: 3 Jul 2024
CVE-2024-29511 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade ghostscript to version 10.03.1 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') through the OCRLanguage configuration. An attacker can read and potentially write files on the system by specifying file paths in the OCR configuration files, such as debug_file and user_patterns_file.
Note: This is only exploitable if Tesseract is used for OCR and specific file paths are configured in the OCR settings.