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CVE-2020-28446

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-28446 describes a critical command injection vulnerability (CWE-77) in the ntesseract package versions prior to 0.2.9, affecting the ntesseract_project. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary commands remotely with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its critical severity and high EPSS score, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.2.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ntesseract_project:ntesseract:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.39%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0339 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 36,862 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ntesseractFixed in: 0.2.9

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-w868-4576-rv24critical

ntesseract vulnerable to Command Injection

Jul 26, 2022

References

github.com / taoyuan/ntesseract/commit/fcbc36f381798b4362179c0cdf9961b437c7b619
PatchThird Party Advisory
security.snyk.io / vuln/SNYK-JS-NTESSERACT-1050982
ExploitThird Party Advisory