Tesseract is an open source OCR engine. In version 5.5.3 and earlier, Classify::ReadIntTemplates in src/classify/intproto.cpp reads NumClassPruners, NumClasses, and NumProtoSets from the TESSDATA_INTTEMP component of a crafted .traineddata file and uses those values as loop bounds without validating them against MAX_NUM_CLASS_PRUNERS, MAX_NUM_CLASSES, and MAX_NUM_PROTO_SETS. The loops store heap pointers into fixed-capacity ClassPruners and ProtoSets arrays in INT_TEMPLATES_STRUCT and INT_CLASS_STRUCT, so an oversized count causes heap out-of-bounds pointer writes during legacy-classifier initialization before OCR begins, resulting in heap corruption, a crash, or potentially controlled corruption. No fixed release is available as of this review.
https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/security/advisories/GHSA-rphx-x795-5qjv
https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/commit/8b0574680f3b22f246ade6a4c8e3029104255c63
Published: 2026-09-10
Updated: 2026-09-10
Base Score: 6.8
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Severity: Medium
Base Score: 7.8
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/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