npos-tesseract Command Injection vulnerability

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2020-28453 · GHSA-mpwp-pf96-9g4r · Published 02/08/2022 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-28453 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting npos-tesseract (npos-tesseract project), npos-tesseract.
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.3%, higher than 71.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
npos-tesseract npos-tesseract_project	`= 0.0.3`	No fix yet
npos-tesseract npm	`≤ 0.0.3`	No fix yet

A command injection vulnerability affects all versions of package npos-tesseract. The injection point is located in line 55 in lib/ocr.js.

NVD description

This affects all versions of package npos-tesseract. The injection point is located in line 55 in lib/ocr.js.

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