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CVE-2023-29566

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-04-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-77

Description

huedawn-tesseract 0.3.3 and dawnsparks-node-tesseract 0.4.0 to 0.4.1 was discovered to contain a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability via the child_process function.

Affected products

• Dawnsparks-Node-Tesseract Project Dawnsparks-Node-Tesseract: 0.4.0, 0.4.1
• Huedawn-Tesseract Project Huedawn-Tesseract: 0.3.0

References

• https://github.com/omnitaint/Vulnerability-Reports/blob/ec3645003c7f8996459b5b24c722474adc2d599f/reports/dawnsparks-node-tesseract/report.md
• https://github.com/rona-dinihari/dawnsparks-node-tesseract
• https://github.com/rona-dinihari/dawnsparks-node-tesseract/commit/81d1664f0b9fe521534acfae1d5b9c40127b36c1
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/dawnsparks-node-tesseract
• https://github.com/omnitaint/Vulnerability-Reports/blob/ec3645003c7f8996459b5b24c722474adc2d599f/reports/dawnsparks-node-tesseract/report.md
• https://github.com/rona-dinihari/dawnsparks-node-tesseract
• https://github.com/rona-dinihari/dawnsparks-node-tesseract/commit/81d1664f0b9fe521534acfae1d5b9c40127b36c1
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/dawnsparks-node-tesseract

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