Tesseract is an open source OCR engine. In version 5.5.3 and earlier, FullyConnected::DeSerialize in src/lstm/fullyconnected.cpp does not validate the deserialized layer scalars ni_ and no_ against the weight-matrix dimensions. During FullyConnected::Forward, MatrixDotVector in src/lstm/weightmatrix.cpp writes w.dim1() results into temp_line, which is sized from no_, and reads w.dim2() minus one inputs from curr_input, which is sized from ni_. A crafted .traineddata NT_SOFTMAX layer can therefore use inconsistent dimensions to cause a heap out-of-bounds write and read on the default LSTM engine, resulting in heap corruption, a crash, information disclosure, or potentially controlled corruption. No fixed release is available as of this review.
https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/security/advisories/GHSA-q44c-23p6-5mw6
https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/commit/103dc134eb36411ddc6833ec20aa2c76795bd0ff
Published: 2026-09-10
Updated: 2026-09-11
Base Score: 5.8
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
Severity: Medium
Base Score: 7.1
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Severity: High
Base Score: 8.6
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Severity: High
EPSS: 0.0013