CVE-2026-119338

UNKNOWN 0.0

Tesseract: Double free and use after free in the PAGE XML renderer on right-to-left pages

CVSS Score

0.0

EPSS Score

0.0%

EPSS Percentile

0th

Tesseract is an open source OCR engine. From 5.4.0 until 5.5.4, AppendLinePolygon in src/api/pagerenderer.cpp destroys the caller-owned right-to-left Pta accumulator while receiving it by value, leaving line_top_rtl_pts and line_bottom_rtl_pts dangling. On an upright Hebrew or Arabic page at the default PAGE XML level, POLYGONFLAG with a false skewed_flag enters the vulnerable calls, while LEVELFLAG greater than zero provides an alternative gate. The calls repeatedly read and free the stale object, causing a double free and use after free and allowing corrupted coordinates to reach RecalcPolygonline. This issue is fixed in version 5.5.4.

CWE	CWE-125 CWE-415 CWE-416
Vendor	tesseract-ocr
Product	tesseract
Published	Oct 30, 2026

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Affected Versions

tesseract-ocr / tesseract

>= 5.4.0, < 5.5.4

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗

github.com: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/security/advisories/GHSA-vf7v-2h4f-6f4j github.com: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/pull/4647 github.com: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/commit/fa52414ff1fd13ae4b00048d2498f9141b0bc2eb github.com: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/releases/tag/5.5.4