Security advisory

{
  "id": "07c147eefb9b87b2a703f64fa6f4f372adfb8bddc540c61f2879132b3ed0b037",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-29566",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2023-29566",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2023-29566",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2023-29566",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2023-29566",
        "GHSA-88qf-5f3v-pm6m"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/rona-dinihari/node-tesseract",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "f72e97bf56869a3e7e64d05fb16903520ab479ee"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "81d1664f0b9fe521534acfae1d5b9c40127b36c1"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:dawnsparks-node-tesseract_project:dawnsparks-node-tesseract:0.4.0:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0.4.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "0.4.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:dawnsparks-node-tesseract_project:dawnsparks-node-tesseract:0.4.1:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0.4.1"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "0.4.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  },
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "fixed": "81d1664f0b9fe521534acfae1d5b9c40127b36c1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "0.4.0",
            "0.4.1",
            "v0.4.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-29566.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:43.031266693Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/omnitaint/Vulnerability-Reports/blob/ec3645003c7f8996459b5b24c722474adc2d599f/reports/dawnsparks-node-tesseract/report.md",
        "https://www.npmjs.com/package/dawnsparks-node-tesseract",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/29xxx/CVE-2023-29566.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-29566",
        "https://github.com/rona-dinihari/dawnsparks-node-tesseract/commit/81d1664f0b9fe521534acfae1d5b9c40127b36c1",
        "https://github.com/rona-dinihari/dawnsparks-node-tesseract"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cna_assigner": "mitre",
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/29xxx/CVE-2023-29566.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2023-29566",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 510790,
  "published_at": "2023-04-24T00:00:00+00:00"
}