huedawn-tesseract/dawnsparks-node-tesseract child_process command injection

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in huedawn-tesseract and dawnsparks-node-tesseract and classified as critical. The impacted element is the function child_process. The manipulation results in an unknown weakness. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2023-29566. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in huedawn-tesseract and dawnsparks-node-tesseract (the affected version is unknown). CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-77. The product constructs all or part of a command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended command when it is sent to a downstream component. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The weakness was disclosed 04/24/2023 as 81d1664f0b9fe521534acfae1d5b9c40127b36c1. The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2023-29566 since 04/07/2023. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1202 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Applying the patch 81d1664f0b9fe521534acfae1d5b9c40127b36c1 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2023-1237). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.0
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.9

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VulDB Temp Score: 6.0
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Command injection
CWE: CWE-77 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Recommended: Patch
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Patch: 81d1664f0b9fe521534acfae1d5b9c40127b36c1

Timelineinfo

04/07/2023 🔍
04/24/2023 +17 days 🔍
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07/07/2025 +805 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: 81d1664f0b9fe521534acfae1d5b9c40127b36c1
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2023-29566 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2023-29566
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-227322
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Entryinfo

Created: 04/24/2023 20:43
Updated: 07/07/2025 07:17
Changes: 04/24/2023 20:43 (38), 05/18/2023 14:04 (12), 07/07/2025 07:17 (16)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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