dbashford/textract · Security
textract is vulnerable to OS Command Injection
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-9pcj-m5rr-p28g
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-26831
- Severity
- critical
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 9.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 9.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
textract through 2.5.0 is vulnerable to OS Command Injection via the file path parameter in multiple extractors. When processing files with malicious filenames, the filePath is passed directly to child_process.exec() in lib/extractors/doc.js, rtf.js, dxf.js, images.js, and lib/util.js with inadequate sanitization
CWEs
- CWE-78 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')
- CWE-94 · Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-26831 ↗
- https://github.com/dbashford/textract ↗
- https://github.com/dbashford/textract/blob/master/lib/extractors/doc.js ↗
- https://github.com/dbashford/textract/blob/master/lib/extractors/rtf.js ↗
- https://github.com/dbashford/textract/blob/master/lib/util.js ↗
- https://github.com/zebbernCVE/CVE-2026-26831 ↗
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/textract ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9pcj-m5rr-p28g ↗