CVE-2026-26832_CVE-2026-26832

9.8 / 10

CRITICAL

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

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

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-26832

Source mitre

Published Mar 25, 2026 at 00:00

Modified Mar 25, 2026 at 17:52

Affected Product

Vendor n/a

Product n/a

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CWE Classification

CWE-78

References

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