High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Apr 24, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-3836
CVE-2018-3836
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.
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Affected products
3- Dan Bloomberg/Leptonicav5Range: 1.74.4
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
2- www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0516nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00019.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
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