Command Injection Affecting textract package, versions *
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-JS-TEXTRACT-15874118
- published2 Apr 2026
- disclosed25 Mar 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 25 Mar 2026
NewCVE-2026-26831 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for textract.
Overview
textract is an Extracting text from files of various type including html, pdf, doc, docx, xls, xlsx, csv, pptx, png, jpg, gif, rtf, text/*, and various open office.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection via the filePath parameter in multiple extractors. An attacker can execute arbitrary operating system commands by supplying a crafted file name that is passed unsanitized to child_process.exec().