# CVE-2026-88047

## Summary

- **CVE ID:** CVE-2026-88047
- **Severity:** HIGH
- **CVSS Score:** 8.6 (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)
- **CWE:** CWE-121
- **Published:** Sep 10, 2026
- **Last Modified:** Sep 11, 2026

## Description

Tesseract is an open source OCR engine. In version 5.5.3 and earlier, Classify::ReadNormProtos in src/classify/normmatch.cpp parses the NORMPROTO component of a .traineddata file and uses std::istream::operator>>(char*) to extract a whitespace-delimited token into a fixed 61-byte stack buffer without setting a stream width. The 100-byte line buffer can carry a token of up to 99 characters, so a token longer than 60 characters writes up to 39 attacker-controlled bytes past the buffer during TessBaseAPI::Init of the legacy engine, causing stack corruption, denial of service, and potentially control-flow hijacking on affected standard-library implementations. Builds using Apple's libc++ C++20 bounded array overload are incidentally protected, while typical libstdc++ builds remain affected. No fixed release is available as of this review.

## Affected Products

- tesseract-ocr — tesseract (<= 5.5.3)

## References

- [CNA](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/security/advisories/GHSA-5j2p-r5vc-q7f3)
- [CNA](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/commit/1bda5079b1c8a7e25f523486837426903d29ce84)

## Exploitation Prediction (EPSS)

- **EPSS Score:** 0.13%
- **EPSS Percentile:** 3.0

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_Exported from OnDuty AI Vulnerability Intelligence on 2026-09-12._