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CVE-2020-28446: Command Injection

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-07-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-77

Description

The package ntesseract before 0.2.9 are vulnerable to Command Injection via lib/tesseract.js.

Affected products

• ntesseract: before 0.2.9 — fixed in 0.2.9

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ntesseract 0.2.9. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/taoyuan/ntesseract/commit/fcbc36f381798b4362179c0cdf9961b437c7b619
• https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-NTESSERACT-1050982
• https://github.com/taoyuan/ntesseract/commit/fcbc36f381798b4362179c0cdf9961b437c7b619
• https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-NTESSERACT-1050982

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