Command Injection Affecting node-tesseract-ocr package, versions *
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- published2 Apr 2026
- disclosed25 Mar 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 25 Mar 2026
NewCVE-2026-26832 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for node-tesseract-ocr.
Overview
node-tesseract-ocr is an A Node.js wrapper for the Tesseract OCR API
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection via the recognize() function. An attacker can execute arbitrary system commands by supplying crafted input to the file path parameter, which is concatenated into a shell command and executed without proper sanitization.