Command Injection Affecting ntesseract package, versions <0.2.9


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.22% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-NTESSERACT-1050982
  • published26 Jan 2021
  • disclosed14 Dec 2020
  • creditJHU System Security Lab

Introduced: 14 Dec 2020

CVE-2020-28446  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-78  (opens in a new tab)
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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(){})

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