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CVE-2026-88054

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.9 EPSS 0.18% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS · Published 2026-09-10 · Last synced 2026-09-14

CyberRota Analysis

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The vulnerability affects Tesseract OCR engine versions 5.5.3 and earlier, where a crafted .traineddata model can exploit the handling of zero-length network stacks, leading to a crash during model initialization. This results in a denial of service, making the application unusable until restarted. Organizations using Tesseract for OCR processing should prioritize addressing this vulnerability to maintain service availability and prevent disruptions.

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CVE
CVE-2026-88054
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.9
EPSS
0.18%

Original NVD 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.