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CVE-2026-26831

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2026-03-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-78

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

Affected products

• Dbashford Textract: through 2.5.0

References

• 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

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