Security advisory

{
  "id": "24b39cb2d9f2b0c8d17fc6ac15a8f087e62538f0b56799e81c4ee5b5e2849c4c",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-26832",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2026-26832",
    "summary": "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",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2026-26832",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2026-26832",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2026-26832",
        "GHSA-8j44-735h-w4w2"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:N/A:H/C:H/I:H/PR:N/S:U/UI:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/zapolnoch/node-tesseract-ocr",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "9f6dc9d738020aa8a12371b79dabac492bf471d7"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.2.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "DESCRIPTION"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:zapolnoch:tesseract_ocr:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.2.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v2.2.1",
            "v2.2.0",
            "v2.1.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-26832.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:52.791134586Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/zapolnoch/node-tesseract-ocr/blob/master/src/index.js",
        "https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-tesseract-ocr",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/26xxx/CVE-2026-26832.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-26832",
        "https://github.com/zapolnoch/node-tesseract-ocr",
        "https://github.com/zebbernCVE/CVE-2026-26832"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cna_assigner": "mitre",
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/26xxx/CVE-2026-26832.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2026-26832",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 521713,
  "published_at": "2026-03-25T00:00:00+00:00"
}