Command Injection Affecting ntesseract package, versions <0.2.9


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    0.17% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-NTESSERACT-1050982
  • published 26 Jan 2021
  • disclosed 14 Dec 2020
  • credit JHU System Security Lab

How to fix?

Upgrade ntesseract to version 0.2.9 or higher.

Overview

ntesseract is a simple wrapper for the Tesseract OCR package for node.js

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection via lib/tesseract.js.

PoC:

var a =require("ntesseract");
a.process("& touch JHU #","",function(){})

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

9.8 critical
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

9.8 critical