CRITICAL9.8

GHSA-8j44-735h-w4w2

node-tesseract-ocr is vulnerable to OS Command Injection through unsanitized recognize() function parameter

Details

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

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Affected packages

npm/node-tesseract-ocr

Introduced in: 0

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-26832[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/zapolnoch/node-tesseract-ocr[PACKAGE]
https://github.com/zapolnoch/node-tesseract-ocr/blob/master/src/index.js[WEB]
https://github.com/zebbernCVE/CVE-2026-26832[WEB]