Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-26832
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
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.003
EPSS Ranking 54.0%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 9.8
References
Products affected by CVE-2026-26832
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cpe:2.3:a:zapolnoch:tesseract_ocr:0.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:zapolnoch:tesseract_ocr:0.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:zapolnoch:tesseract_ocr:1.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:zapolnoch:tesseract_ocr:2.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:zapolnoch:tesseract_ocr:2.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:zapolnoch:tesseract_ocr:2.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:zapolnoch:tesseract_ocr:2.2.1