Security advisory

{
  "id": "1d00d344f607fa4f35ec8cf5d92d363cb3f98c81901a4f62ac617cf6f64f6589",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-7441",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2018-7441",
    "summary": "Leptonica through 1.75.3 uses hardcoded /tmp pathnames, which might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files or have unspecified other impact by creating files in advance or winning a race condition, as demonstrated by /tmp/junk_split_image.ps in prog/splitimage2pdf.c.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-7441",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2018-7441",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2018-7441"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/danbloomberg/leptonica",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "ee301cb2029db8a6289c5295daa42bba7715e99a"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:leptonica:leptonica:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.75.3"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "1.75.3",
            "1.75.2",
            "1.75.1",
            "1.75.0",
            "1.74.4",
            "v1.74.3",
            "1.74.3",
            "1.74.2",
            "1.74.1",
            "1.74.0",
            "v1.73",
            "v1.72",
            "v1.71",
            "v1.70",
            "v1.69",
            "v1.68",
            "v1.67",
            "v1.66",
            "v1.65",
            "v1.64",
            "v1.63",
            "v1.62",
            "v1.61",
            "v1.60",
            "v1.58",
            "v1.56",
            "v1.54",
            "v1.52",
            "v1.50",
            "v1.48",
            "v1.46",
            "v1.44",
            "v1.42"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-7441.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:33.923255850Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2018/02/msg00054.html",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-01"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-7441",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 433404,
  "published_at": "2018-02-23T21:29:00.663+00:00"
}