CVE-2022-38266
MediumPublic PoC
Published: 09 September 2022
Published
09 September 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
0.0031
54.4th percentile
Risk Priority
13
60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS
Summary
CVE-2022-38266 is a medium-severity Divide By Zero (CWE-369) vulnerability in Tesseract Project Tesseract. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 45.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-40858
Vulnerability details
An issue in the Leptonica linked library (v1.79.0) allows attackers to cause an arithmetic exception leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted JPEG file.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
tesseract project
tesseract
5.0.0
leptonica
leptonica
≤ 1.80.0
debian
debian linux
10.0
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.