GHSA-8j44-735h-w4w2

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

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Critical CVE-2026-26832

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
npm	node-tesseract-ocr	<= 2.2.1	no fix listed

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

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

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

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