# node-tesseract-ocr (npm) vulnerabilities

1 known vulnerability (1 critical), with the versions each affects and the releases that fix them.

## At a glance

- Latest release: 2.2.1 (May 11, 2021): affected by CVE-2026-26832
- Newest unaffected release: Every release is affected by at least one advisory
- Weekly downloads: 53.9K
- Dependents: 94
- Releases: 7 since 0.1.0 (Oct 9, 2018)
- Registry: https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-tesseract-ocr
- Releases read: Nov 8, 2026

## Version timeline

Affected versions per advisory, in version order:

- CVE-2026-26832: 0.1.0 to 2.2.1 (through the newest release)

## Advisories (1)

### [CVE-2026-26832](https://cve.now/CVE-2026-26832): node-tesseract-ocr is an npm package that provides a Node.js wrapper for Tesseract OCR.

- Severity: Critical 9.8
- Published: Mar 25, 2026
- Affected: through 2.2.1.
- No fix released. The latest release, 2.2.1, is still affected.
- 100% of node-tesseract-ocr downloads last week were affected versions (54.4K).

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