CVE-2023-29566
Published: 24 April 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-29566 is a critical-severity Command Injection (CWE-77) vulnerability in Dawnsparks-Node-Tesseract Project Dawnsparks-Node-Tesseract. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 10.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
Deeper analysis
CVE-2023-29566 is a remote code execution vulnerability present in huedawn-tesseract version 0.3.3 and dawnsparks-node-tesseract versions 0.4.0 through 0.4.1. The flaw stems from unsafe use of the child_process function, which permits injection of operating-system commands and is tracked under CWE-77 and CWE-94. The issue received a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.8, reflecting network attackability without authentication or user interaction.
An unauthenticated attacker with network access to an affected package can supply crafted input that results in arbitrary command execution on the underlying host, yielding full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. Exploitation requires only that the vulnerable tesseract wrapper be reachable and invoked with attacker-controlled parameters.
Public references include a detailed vulnerability report and a commit that addresses the child_process handling in the dawnsparks-node-tesseract repository, indicating an upstream patch is available through the package maintainer. The associated EPSS score reached a modest peak of 0.0621 before receding to its current value of 0.0430.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-1237
Vulnerability details
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.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Makes persistent code injection into loaded programs impossible when the executable image itself resides on hardware-protected read-only media.
Dynamically generated code can be produced and executed inside the isolated chamber, preventing host compromise from code-injection payloads.
Validates inputs used in dynamic code generation to block injected directives.
Directly prevents execution of attacker-supplied code written into data memory regions.