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CVE-2026-26832
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2026-03-25T16:16:21.240 · Last modified 2026-06-17T10:26:21.670

Summary

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

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References

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