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CVE-2026-110638

doc-recog through 1.1.6 OS Command Injection via DocData._readPDF File Path

Published
Last modified
Status
published
Known exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fix or patch referenced
Public exploit
None on Exploit-DB
CISA SSVC
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: total
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Decision points from CISA's Vulnrichment, assessed (SSVC 2.0.3).

SSVC documentation

Summary

doc-recog through 1.1.6 contains an OS command injection vulnerability that allows attackers to execute commands by supplying crafted document paths to recog() or tag(). Attackers can embed $(...) or backtick command substitution in the file path, which DocData._readPDF passes to a shell-based pdftotext exec call, running commands with Node.js process privileges.

Affected versions

  • zepspaiva doc-recog

    through 1.1.6

References 4

GitHub · zepspaiva/doc-recog

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