CVE-2026-26832

Description

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 Platforms

Weakness Type

CWE-78

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