CVE-2026-26832

critical · 9.8

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

9.8

CVSS

1.7%

EPSS (exploit prob.)

76th

EPSS percentile

2026-03-25

Published

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-78

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
zapolnoch	tesseract_ocr	<= 2.2.1

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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

Query this programmatically:

curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2026-26832