CVE-2026-88052 (GCVE-0-2026-88052)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-10 17:38 – Updated: 2026-09-11 20:33
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Tesseract: Heap out-of-bounds write in UNICHARSET::load_via_fgets via count/insert desynchronization
Summary
Tesseract is an open source OCR engine. In version 5.5.3 and earlier, UNICHARSET::load_via_fgets in src/ccutil/unicharset.cpp trusts the declared unichar count as a loop bound and uses id as an unchecked index into the unichars vector. unichar_insert_backwards_compatible can leave the vector unchanged for an empty, duplicate, or already-encodable representation, causing id to become larger than unichars.size(). Subsequent set_* calls and the write to unichars[id].properties.enabled then write UNICHAR_PROPERTIES beyond the vector during initialization in both the default LSTM and legacy engines, causing heap corruption, a crash, or potentially controlled corruption. No fixed release is available as of this review.
Severity
7.8 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-09-11 16:48 UTC
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/securi… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/commit… | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| tesseract-ocr | tesseract |
Affected:
<= 5.5.3
|
guessed |
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