CVE-2026-26832: Zapolnoch Tesseract Ocr

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Zapolnoch Tesseract Ocr: up to and including 2.2.1

Published 2026-03-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.