A security flaw has been discovered in Handwriting-OCR handwriting-ocr-mcp-server 0.1.0. Affected by this vulnerability is the function fs.readFileSync of the file src/index.ts of the component upload_document. Performing a manipulation of the argument File results in path traversal. Attacking locally is a requirement. The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet.
CVE-2026-19372
Score 5.3 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: LOW) published 2026-08-10. a secondary CVSS source baseline 5.3; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 5.3
- EG Score
- 5.3(high)
- EG Risk
- 40(Track)EG Risk 40/100SSVC: Track
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How it’s computedSeverity53% × 45%Exploitation40% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 4%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
August 9, 2026
Last Modified
August 12, 2026
Advisory Details (2)
Auto-updated Aug 9, 2026GitHub - Handwriting-OCR/handwriting-ocr-mcp-server: Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server for Handwriting OCR · GitHub
https://github.com/Handwriting-OCR/handwriting-ocr-mcp-server/Arbitrary Local File Read via upload_document in Handwriting-OCR/handwriting-ocr-mcp-server · Issue #6 · Handwriting-OCR/handwriting-ocr-mcp-server · GitHub
https://github.com/Handwriting-OCR/handwriting-ocr-mcp-server/issues/6Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-19372(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
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Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 23× in last 7d / 43× in last 30d)
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- 2026-08-21 00:50 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-21 00:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-20 22:55 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-08-19 17:03 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-08-18 13:48 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-08-18 07:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
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- 2026-08-17 09:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
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- 2026-08-16 12:04 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-16 02:14 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-08-15 14:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
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- 2026-08-14 16:35 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-08-13 22:00 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-08-12 21:03 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-12 21:03 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-12 13:50 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-12 12:54 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-11 15:09 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-11 15:09 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-11 13:42 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-11 00:00 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-10 17:22 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-10 17:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-10 17:21 UTCNVD updateCVSS v4 → 1.9
- 2026-08-10 16:30 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-10 16:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-10 16:29 UTCMITRE cvelistV5CVSS v4 → 4.8
- 2026-08-09 23:19 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-09 23:19 UTCNVD updateCVSS v4 → 1.9
- 2026-08-09 22:41 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-09 22:41 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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