CVE-2011-1136

MEDIUM
4.7
CVSS Score
Published: November 14, 2019 at 12:50 AM UTC
Updated: September 14, 2026 at 02:10 PM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsDebian LinuxTesseract Ocr

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Severity
MEDIUM4.7
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (3)

x_refsource_MISCExploitMailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612032
x_refsource_MISCExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tesseract/+bug/607297

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-59

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