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.
History

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Tesseract-ocr
Tesseract-ocr tesseract Ocr
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:tesseract-ocr:tesseract_ocr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Tesseract-ocr
Tesseract-ocr tesseract Ocr
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


Sun, 13 Sep 2026 19:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Tesseract Project
Tesseract Project tesseract
Vendors & Products Tesseract Project
Tesseract Project tesseract

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 23:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-120
References
Metrics threat_severity

None

cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

threat_severity

Important


Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description 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.
Title Tesseract: ReadNormProtos stack buffer overflow
Weaknesses CWE-121
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.6, 'vector': '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'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2026-09-10T16:18:01.588Z

Updated: 2026-09-11T20:33:10.471Z

Reserved: 2026-09-09T21:22:45.433Z

Link: CVE-2026-88047

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-11T16:48:38.148Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2026-09-10T17:17:08.817

Modified: 2026-09-14T20:01:21.213

Link: CVE-2026-88047

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2026-09-10T16:18:01Z

Links: CVE-2026-88047 - Bugzilla