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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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