CVE-2026-73067

Tesseract is an open source OCR engine. Prior to 5.5.3, a crafted .traineddata model loaded through TessBaseAPI::Init can cause SquishedDawg::read_squished_dawg in src/dict/dawg.cpp to accept an unterminated forward-edge run, after which SquishedDawg::Load calls num_forward_edges(0) and last_edge in src/dict/dawg.h reads beyond edges_, causing a heap out-of-bounds read and process crash before image processing. This issue is fixed in version 5.5.3.

CVSS

No CVSS.

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/commit/55287a94b8044c05ce3fd10f5aca6ebbd238e518
https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/commit/82727cc11c34eaf1249af002d69f6bbae70993b9
https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/issues/4580
https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/pull/4581
https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/releases/tag/5.5.3
https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/security/advisories/GHSA-x3vq-7rr7-5x3h

Configurations

No configuration.

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-08-11 15:17

Updated : 2026-09-09 20:46

NVD link : CVE-2026-73067

Mitre link : CVE-2026-73067

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-73067

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Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-125

Out-of-bounds Read

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