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CVE-2026-88048VulnerabilityPublished

CVE-2026-88048: tesseract · Out-of-bounds Read

Affects tesseractSource CVE Database V5

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 8.6 High.

Data as of 25 Oct 2026, 19:02 UTC

CVSS 4.0 base score
8.6High
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
EPSS
0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 6% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
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

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 10 Sep 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponised: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2026-10-25.

What to do

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
tesseract-ocrtesseractAffected
  • <=5.5.3
Fixed in–
GitHubtesseract-ocr/tesseractpkg:github/tesseract-ocr/tesseractOther threatsAffected
  • <=5.5.3
Fixed in–

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AI-suggested

Users should monitor the vendor's advisory channels for updates. Until a fix is released, avoid processing untrusted or crafted .traineddata NT_SOFTMAX layers with affected versions of Tesseract. Consider applying additional input validation or sandboxing measures to limit potential impact.

Description

CVE-2026-88048 is a high-severity vulnerability in the open source OCR engine Tesseract, affecting version 5.5.3 and earlier. The flaw arises from improper validation of deserialized layer scalars in the FullyConnected::DeSerialize function, leading to inconsistent dimensions used during matrix operations. This can cause heap out-of-bounds reads and writes, resulting in heap corruption, crashes, information disclosure, or potentially controlled memory corruption. No official fix or patch is available as of the latest review.

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