Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
CVE-2011-1136 is an old Tesseract OCR issue affecting versions 2.03 and 2.04. A local attacker who can influence temporary link creation may overwrite a file owned by the user running Tesseract. Business risk is mainly legacy-system integrity loss, not internet-scale compromise based on the supplied sources.
Executive priority
Treat this as a legacy hygiene issue with moderate priority. It warrants remediation if old Tesseract versions remain in production, especially on shared systems, but supplied evidence does not indicate active exploitation or broad remote exposure.
Technical view
The described flaw allows arbitrary user-file rewrite by guessing the process ID and creating a link to the target user's file. The sources identify Tesseract 2.03 and 2.04, but provide no CVSS, CWE, confirmed fixed version, or remote attack path in the supplied bundle.
Likely exposure
Exposure is most likely on legacy systems still running Tesseract 2.03 or 2.04, especially shared hosts or OCR pipelines processing untrusted jobs. The supplied sources do not support broader product or version claims.
Exploitation context
CISA KEV is false, and the supplied sources do not report active exploitation. The described attack appears to require local filesystem interaction and process-ID guessing; remote exploitation is not supported by the provided evidence.
Researcher notes
The source bundle is sparse: no CVSS, CWE, patch statement, or detailed advisory text is provided. Analysis should stay limited to Tesseract 2.03 and 2.04 and the file-rewrite behavior described in the CVE summary and distro references.
Mitigation direction
- Inventory systems for Tesseract 2.03 and 2.04.
- Check Debian, Ubuntu, or vendor package guidance for corrected builds.
- Avoid running legacy Tesseract jobs as privileged users.
- Limit untrusted local access on systems running vulnerable OCR workflows.
- Isolate OCR processing until vendor remediation is confirmed.
Validation and detection
- Confirm installed Tesseract versions across hosts and containers.
- Identify OCR jobs running on shared or multi-user systems.
- Review whether vulnerable versions process untrusted input.
- Check vendor package history for CVE-2011-1136 remediation status.
- Document any remaining legacy exception and compensating controls.
Public sources used
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Open ATT&CK lookup- Severity
- Unknown
- CVSS
- Not scored
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
CNA and ADP enrichment extracted from CVE v5
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CVSS and timeline data
No CVSS vectors or timeline events were available in the normalized CVE source material.
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1136CVE reference · x_refsource_MISC
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612032CVE reference · x_refsource_MISC
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tesseract/+bug/607297CVE reference · x_refsource_MISC
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