CVE-2026-110638

critical · 9.3

doc-recog through 1.1.6 contains an OS command injection vulnerability that allows attackers to execute commands by supplying crafted document paths to recog() or tag(). Attackers can embed $(...) or backtick command substitution in the file path, which DocData._readPDF passes to a shell-based pdftotext exec call, running commands with Node.js process privileges.

9.3

CVSS

2.7%

EPSS (exploit prob.)

86th

EPSS percentile

2026-10-14

Published

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Weaknesses

CWE-78

References

https://github.com/zepspaiva/doc-recog
https://github.com/zepspaiva/doc-recog/blob/96d31957fbc2a31f1d739e2d64e5c85a05f688ec/docdata.js#L69-L74
https://github.com/zepspaiva/doc-recog/pull/2
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/doc-recog-through-1.1.6-os-command-injection-via-docdata-readpdf-file-path

Query this programmatically:

curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2026-110638