What is CVE-2020-28446?

CVE-2020-28446 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Ntesseract Project, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2022-07-25.

How severe is CVE-2020-28446?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

RCE in Ntesseract Project

CVE-2020-28446

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

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

Published 2022-07-25 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.034 (88.5th percentile), scored 2026-10-02.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 89th percentile — 88.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.035 · newest: 0.034 · change: -0.001

Affected products

Ntesseract Project
Ntesseract — versions unspecified

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-77 — Command Injection

References

security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-NTESSERACT-1050982 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/taoyuan/ntesseract/commit/fcbc36f381798b4362179c0cdf9961b437c7b619 (Patch, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-28446?: CVE-2020-28446 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Ntesseract Project, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2022-07-25.
How severe is CVE-2020-28446?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.