VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2026-26832

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability1.74%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2026-03-25
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

node-tesseract-ocr is an npm package that provides a Node.js wrapper for Tesseract OCR. In all versions through 2.2.1, the recognize() function in src/index.js is vulnerable to OS Command Injection. The file path parameter is concatenated into a shell command string and passed to child_process.exec() without proper sanitization

Weakness classification

  • 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0: CWE-78

Primary references