Command Injection Affecting npos-tesseract package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.25% (66th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications

Snyk Learn

Learn about Command Injection vulnerabilities in an interactive lesson.

Start learning
  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-NPOSTESSERACT-1051031
  • published26 Jan 2021
  • disclosed26 Jan 2021
  • creditJHU System Security Lab

Introduced: 26 Jan 2021

CVE-2020-28453  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-78  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for npos-tesseract.

Overview

npos-tesseract is an OCR tool for npos using tesseract engine

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection. The injection point is located in line 55 in lib/ocr.js.

PoC

var a = require("npos-tesseract");
a.ocr("& touch JHU #","",function(){});

CVSS Scores

version 3.1