CVE-2011-1136 Path traversal in n/a
An attacker can overwrite arbitrary user files by exploiting a race condition involving PID guessing and symbolic links in the Tesseract OCR library.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2011-1136?
CVE-2011-1136 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 14 Nov 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-59
Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-1136?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Debian Debian Linux, Tesseract-Ocr Tesseract Ocr.
How do I fix CVE-2011-1136?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.
Is CVE-2011-1136 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-1136 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Debian Debian Linux
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1136, GHSA-mr6c-m5m7-mvxj.