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CVE-2022-38266

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-38266 is a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in the Leptonica linked library (v1.79.0) that can be triggered by processing a specially crafted JPEG file, affecting various Debian and Tesseract products. With a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), it requires user interaction (UI:R) and can be exploited remotely (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L). There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tesseract_project:tesseract:5.0.0:alpha-20210401:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 1.80.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:leptonica:leptonica:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.15%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
63.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0115 is in the 76th percentile among its peer group of 26,234 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: leptonica
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: leptonica

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2022-38266Low

leptonica: arithmetic exception leads to denial of service

Sep 12, 2022

References

github.com / DanBloomberg/leptonica/commit/f062b42c0ea8dddebdc6a152fd16152de215d614
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / tesseract-ocr/tesseract/issues/3498
ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00018.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202312-01