THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2005-1141
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2005-1141

Optical Character Recognition vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
3.4%
EPSS pct
88th
Exploited
No known
Integer overflow in the readpgm function in pnm.c for GOCR 0.40, when using the netpbm library, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PNM file with large width and height values, which leads to a heap-based buffer overflow.
Affected vendor
Optical Character Recognition Project
Affected product
Optical Character Recognition
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-190 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound
Published
2005-04-15

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2005-1141

  • Confirm whether Optical Character Recognition Project Optical Character Recognition is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2005-1141.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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