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CVE-2026-26832

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-03-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-78

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

Affected products

• Zapolnoch Tesseract Ocr: through 2.2.1

References

• 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
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-tesseract-ocr

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