CVE-2026-88050: Tesseract-Ocr Tesseract Ocr

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Tesseract is an open source OCR engine. In version 5.5.3 and earlier, RecodedCharID::DeSerialize in src/ccutil/unicharcompress.h validates length_ but accepts negative code_ values from a crafted .traineddata recoder component. UnicharCompress::ComputeCodeRange in src/ccutil/unicharcompress.cpp can consequently produce code_range_ equal to zero, after which SetupDecoder indexes is_valid_start_ with the negative code on a size-zero vector. The resulting out-of-bounds bit write uses a large wrapped index and reliably causes a wild-address crash or allocation failure on the default LSTM engine. No fixed release is available as of this review.

Affected products

• Tesseract-Ocr Tesseract Ocr: up to and including 5.5.3

Published 2026-09-10. Last modified 2026-09-14.