CVE-2026-88053CWE-787

CVE-2026-88053

High · published September 10, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
6.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

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
0.00176 · 6.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write
Published
2026-09-10T22:18Z
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 17:38Z
    Tesseract: Heap out-of-bounds write in Classify::ReadIntTemplates via unvalidated counts in crafted .traineddata
    cvelistv5