Critical 9.8Published Mar 24, 2026

CVE-2026-26832node-tesseract-ocr is an npm package that provides a Node.js wrapper for Tesseract OCR.

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 26, 2026, 5:00 PM ET)

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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: 9.8 CRITICAL (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:N/A:H/C:H/I:H/PR:N/S:U/UI:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-78
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: mitre
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Mar 25, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

zapolnoch tesseract_ocr zapolnoch:tesseract_ocr	through 2.2.1	NVD

References

References

https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-tesseract-ocr	product
https://github.com/zapolnoch/node-tesseract-ocr	product
https://github.com/zapolnoch/node-tesseract-ocr/blob/master/src/index.js	product
https://github.com/zebbernCVE/CVE-2026-26832	mitigation, third-party-advisory

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