Is CVE-2026-110638 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-110638?

CVE-2026-110638 has a CVSS v3 severity of CRITICAL (9.8).

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CVE-2026-110638

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.