CVE-2021-33480

MEDIUM 5.5CVE-2021-33480 · Published 17/11/2021 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2021-33480 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability affecting optical character recognition (optical character recognition project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.1%, higher than 65.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
optical character recognition optical_character_recognition_project	`≤ 0.53-20200802`	No fix yet

An use-after-free vulnerability was discovered in gocr through 0.53-20200802 in context_correction() in pgm2asc.c.

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