CVE-2026-26831_CVE-2026-26831

9.8 / 10

CRITICAL

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

Description

textract through 2.5.0 is vulnerable to OS Command Injection via the file path parameter in multiple extractors. When processing files with malicious filenames, the filePath is passed directly to child_process.exec() in lib/extractors/doc.js, rtf.js, dxf.js, images.js, and lib/util.js with inadequate sanitization

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-26831

Source mitre

Published Mar 25, 2026 at 00:00

Modified Mar 28, 2026 at 01:12

Affected Product

Vendor n/a

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CWE Classification

CWE-94

References

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