CVE-2018-7441: Leptonica

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Leptonica through 1.75.3 uses hardcoded /tmp pathnames, which might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files or have unspecified other impact by creating files in advance or winning a race condition, as demonstrated by /tmp/junk_split_image.ps in prog/splitimage2pdf.c.

Affected products

• Leptonica Leptonica: up to and including 1.75.3

Published 2018-02-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.