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CVE

CVE-2026-26832

node-tesseract-ocr is vulnerable to OS Command Injection through unsanitized recognize() function parameter
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CVE

CVE-2026-26832

node-tesseract-ocr is vulnerable to OS Command Injection through unsanitized recognize() function parameter

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

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CVSS Version

Severity
Base Score
CVSS Version
Score Vector
C
H
U
9.8
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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
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-2026-26832, https://github.com/zapolnoch/node-tesseract-ocr, https://github.com/zapolnoch/node-tesseract-ocr/blob/master/src/index.js, https://github.com/zebbernCVE/CVE-2026-26832

Severity

9.8

CVSS Score
0
10

Basic Information

Ecosystem
Base CVSS
9.8
EPSS Probability
0.00193%
EPSS Percentile
0.41164%
Introduced Version
0
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