{"id":"CVE-2026-110638","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-110638","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:02:28.155Z","title":"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().","description":"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.","published":"2026-10-14T15:17:17.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-16T19:03:18.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"disclosure@vulncheck.com","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":9.3,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M"},"cwe":["CWE-78"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.02727,"percentile":0.85968,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[{"date":"2026-10-15","score":0.02727,"percentile":0.85811}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.73%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-10-14T15:17:17.000Z","detail":{"score":"9.3","severity":"CRITICAL","publishedAt":"2026-10-14T15:17:16.997Z"},"summary":"New CVE, critical severity (CVSS 9.3)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/zepspaiva/doc-recog","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/zepspaiva/doc-recog/blob/96d31957fbc2a31f1d739e2d64e5c85a05f688ec/docdata.js#L69-L74","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/zepspaiva/doc-recog/pull/2","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/doc-recog-through-1.1.6-os-command-injection-via-docdata-readpdf-file-path","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-110638","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}