PT-2026-27800 · Extract · Textract

Zebbern · Published 2026-03-25 · Updated 2026-04-01 · CVE-2026-26831

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions textract versions through 2.5.0

Description The software is susceptible to an OS Command Injection issue through the file path parameter in multiple extractors. Processing files with malicious filenames allows the filePath to be directly passed to child process.exec() in lib/extractors/doc.js, rtf.js, dxf.js, images.js, and lib/util.js without sufficient sanitization. The vulnerable parameter is filePath. The vulnerable function is child process.exec().

Recommendations Versions prior to 2.5.1 should be updated.

Exploit

Fix

OS Command Injection

Code Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-78

CWE-94

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-26831

GHSA-9PCJ-M5RR-P28G

Affected Products

Textract

References · 9

• 🔥 https://github.com/zebbernCVE/CVE-2026-26831 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-9pcj-m5rr-p28g · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-26831 · Security Note
• https://github.com/dbashford/textract · Note
• https://github.com/dbashford/textract/blob/master/lib/util.js · Note
• https://github.com/dbashford/textract/blob/master/lib/extractors/rtf.js · Note
• https://github.com/dbashford/textract/blob/master/lib/extractors/doc.js · Note
• https://npmjs.com/package/textract · Note
• https://twitter.com/pulsepatchio/status/2039360819805237538 · Twitter Post