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CVE-2026-88054

5.5 · MEDIUM

Tesseract is an open source OCR engine.

Published Sep 10, 2026tesseract-ocrCWE-125EPSS 0.15%

Overview

CVE-2026-88054 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting tesseract-ocr tesseract_ocr. It was published on September 10, 2026 and has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.5 (MEDIUM).

This vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.5, rated MEDIUM. It requires local or adjacent network access to exploit. Some level of privileges is required for exploitation.

Technical description

Tesseract is an open source OCR engine. In version 5.5.3 and earlier, Plumbing::DeSerialize in src/lstm/plumbing.cpp rejects excessively large network stacks but accepts a zero-length stack for NT_SERIES, NT_PARALLEL, or NT_REVERSED layers in a crafted .traineddata model. During LSTMRecognizer initialization in src/lstm/lstmrecognizer.cpp, CacheXScaleFactor(XScaleFactor()) reaches Series::CacheXScaleFactor in src/lstm/series.cpp, which dereferences stack_[0] on the empty vector and invokes a virtual method through an invalid Network pointer. This causes a deterministic crash and denial of service at model load. No fixed release is available as of this review.

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from tesseract-ocr. Update tesseract_ocr to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsStatus
tesseract-ocrtesseract_ocr0Affected

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-88054?

CVE-2026-88054 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting tesseract-ocr tesseract_ocr. It was published on September 10, 2026 and has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.5 (MEDIUM).

How severe is CVE-2026-88054?

This vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.5, rated MEDIUM. It requires local or adjacent network access to exploit. Some level of privileges is required for exploitation.

How do I fix or remediate CVE-2026-88054?

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from tesseract-ocr. Update tesseract_ocr to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

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