Microsoft Security Response Center guidance
Vendor revision: Nov 14, 2026Release Notes
Vulnerability intelligence
CVE-2026-119338 and is rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 6.9. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.
Release Notes
Tesseract is an open source OCR engine. From 5.4.0 until 5.5.4, AppendLinePolygon in src/api/pagerenderer.cpp destroys the caller-owned right-to-left Pta accumulator while receiving it by value, leaving line_top_rtl_pts and line_bottom_rtl_pts dangling.
On an upright Hebrew or Arabic page at the default PAGE XML level, POLYGONFLAG with a false skewed_flag enters the vulnerable calls, while LEVELFLAG greater than zero provides an alternative gate. The calls repeatedly read and free the stale object, causing a double free and use after free and allowing corrupted coordinates to reach RecalcPolygonline.
This issue is fixed in version 5.5.4.
Source: NVD