# CVE-2026-88053

## Summary

- **CVE ID:** CVE-2026-88053
- **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-787
- **Published:** Sep 10, 2026
- **Last Modified:** Sep 10, 2026

## Description

Tesseract is an open source OCR engine. In version 5.5.3 and earlier, Classify::ReadIntTemplates in src/classify/intproto.cpp reads NumClassPruners, NumClasses, and NumProtoSets from the TESSDATA_INTTEMP component of a crafted .traineddata file and uses those values as loop bounds without validating them against MAX_NUM_CLASS_PRUNERS, MAX_NUM_CLASSES, and MAX_NUM_PROTO_SETS. The loops store heap pointers into fixed-capacity ClassPruners and ProtoSets arrays in INT_TEMPLATES_STRUCT and INT_CLASS_STRUCT, so an oversized count causes heap out-of-bounds pointer writes during legacy-classifier initialization before OCR begins, resulting in heap corruption, a crash, or potentially controlled corruption. 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-rphx-x795-5qjv)
- [CNA](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/commit/8b0574680f3b22f246ade6a4c8e3029104255c63)

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_Exported from OnDuty AI Vulnerability Intelligence on 2026-09-11._