CVE-2026-88047CWE-121

CVE-2026-88047

High · published September 10, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
1.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Tesseract is an open source OCR engine. In version 5.5.3 and earlier, Classify::ReadNormProtos in src/classify/normmatch.cpp parses the NORMPROTO component of a .traineddata file and uses std::istream::operator>>(char*) to extract a whitespace-delimited token into a fixed 61-byte stack buffer without setting a stream width. The 100-byte line buffer can carry a token of up to 99 characters, so a token longer than 60 characters writes up to 39 attacker-controlled bytes past the buffer during TessBaseAPI::Init of the legacy engine, causing stack corruption, denial of service, and potentially control-flow hijacking on affected standard-library implementations. Builds using Apple's libc++ C++20 bounded array overload are incidentally protected, while typical libstdc++ builds remain affected. No fixed release is available as of this review.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
8.6 · 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
EPSS
0.00115 · 1.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-121 · Stack-based Buffer Overflow
Published
2026-09-10T21:17Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
tesseract-ocr/tesseract_ocr≤ 5.5.3—
References (2)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 SEP 03:22Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 10 SEP 16:18Z
    Tesseract: ReadNormProtos stack buffer overflow
    cvelistv5