ntesseract vulnerable to Command Injection

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2020-28446 · GHSA-w868-4576-rv24 · Published 25/07/2022 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-28446 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting ntesseract (ntesseract project), ntesseract.
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.5%, higher than 89.3% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 0.2.9 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
ntesseract ntesseract_project	`< 0.2.9`	`0.2.9`
ntesseract npm	`< 0.2.9`	`0.2.9`

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

NVD description

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

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