# textract (npm) vulnerabilities

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

## At a glance

- Latest release: 2.5.0 (Jun 3, 2019): affected by CVE-2026-26831
- Newest unaffected release: Every release is affected by at least one advisory
- Weekly downloads: 16.6K
- Dependents: 70
- Releases: 46 since 0.0.1 (Apr 26, 2013)
- Registry: https://www.npmjs.com/package/textract
- Releases read: Nov 8, 2026

## Version timeline

Affected versions per advisory, in version order:

- CVE-2026-26831: 0.0.1 to 2.5.0 (through the newest release)

## Advisories (1)

### [CVE-2026-26831](https://cve.now/CVE-2026-26831): textract through 2.5.0 is vulnerable to OS Command Injection via the file path parameter in multiple extractors.

- Severity: Critical 9.8
- Published: Mar 25, 2026
- Affected: through 2.5.0.
- No fix released. The latest release, 2.5.0, is still affected.
- 100% of textract downloads last week were affected versions (24.3K).

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