Security advisory

{
  "id": "a3455376aac791213c8f163229576ac1016e3ff5574bdfadaf15691e80ac6010",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-3836",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2018-3836",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-3836",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2018-3836",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2018-3836"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/danbloomberg/leptonica",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "f3d7ee868b4864cdca7ea57349d49f3d2b4a63ec"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "f3d7ee868b4864cdca7ea57349d49f3d2b4a63ec"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:leptonica:leptonica:1.74.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "1.74.4"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.74.4"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "1.74.4"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-3836.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:20.434304202Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00019.html",
        "https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0516"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "7.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "7.0"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-3836",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 430263,
  "published_at": "2018-04-24T19:29:03.97+00:00"
}