CVE-2026-88048CWE-125CWE-787

CVE-2026-88048

High · published September 10, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
6.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.1 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/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
0.00170 · 6.1th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read; CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write
Published
2026-09-10T21:17Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
tesseract-ocr/tesseract_ocr≤ 5.5.3—
References (3)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 SEP 03:22Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 10 SEP 16:21Z
    Tesseract: Heap out-of-bounds write/read in FullyConnected::Forward via layer/weight-matrix dimension mismatch
    cvelistv5