CVE-2026-26832

CVSS 9.8 CRITICALEPSS 1.7%CWE-78

Vexday Risk Score

28Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 9.8EPSS 1.7%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

25 Mar 2026Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

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

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

Affected products

n/a · n/a

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