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. For example, exploitation can use debug_file /tmp/out and user_patterns_file /etc/passwd.
| Version | Score | Severity | Vector String |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.5 | High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| Product | Vendor | Version |
|---|---|---|
| n/a | n/a | 2.6.20 |