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CVE

CVE-2026-26831

textract is vulnerable to OS Command Injection
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CVE

CVE-2026-26831

textract is vulnerable to OS Command Injection

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

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CVSS Version

Severity
Base Score
CVSS Version
Score Vector
C
H
U
9.8
-
3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
C
H
U
0
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3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
C
H
U
-

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-26831, https://github.com/dbashford/textract, https://github.com/dbashford/textract/blob/master/lib/extractors/doc.js, https://github.com/dbashford/textract/blob/master/lib/extractors/rtf.js, https://github.com/dbashford/textract/blob/master/lib/util.js, https://github.com/zebbernCVE/CVE-2026-26831, https://www.npmjs.com/package/textract

Severity

9.8

CVSS Score
0
10

Basic Information

Ecosystem
Base CVSS
9.8
EPSS Probability
0.00442%
EPSS Percentile
0.63141%
Introduced Version
0
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