CVE-2020-28446: Snyk Vulnerability Database | Snyk

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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(){})