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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","published":"2024-07-03T00:00:00Z","modified":"2024-08-02T01:10:55.453Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"high","assessor":"adp"}],"cwes":["CWE-489"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:34:14.985673Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2024-26514","description":"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. 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For example, exploitation can use debug_file /tmp/out and user_patterns_file /etc/passwd.(CVE-2024-29511)","status":"published","published":"2026-06-24T11:11:41Z","modified":"2026-08-18T01:21:11.210174686Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:52:46.449097Z"},{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2024-29511","description":"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. 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An attacker could use this issue to read arbitrary\nfiles and write error messages to arbitrary files. This issue only affected\nUbuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-29511)\n","status":"published","published":"2024-07-15T11:27:33Z","modified":"2026-04-22T10:49:50.889085Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T16:58:17.914523Z"}]}}