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CVE-2018-3836

HIGH · CVSS 7.8 EPSS 1.45% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2018-04-24 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8. Public exploit code or proof-of-concept references have been detected in its references.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

Detected Signals
exploit arbitrary code execution code execution

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CVE
CVE-2018-3836
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.8
EPSS
1.45%

Original NVD Description

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.

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