CVE-2026-26832: 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…

PriorityP262critical9.8CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRNUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

1.71%

74.4th percentile

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

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
zapolnoch	tesseract_ocr	<= 2.2.1	—

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