CVE-2022-24725CWE-200

Exposure of home directory through shescape on Unix with Bash

Medium · published March 3, 2022

CVSS v3.1
6.2
EPSS
0%
Percentile
41.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Shescape is a shell escape package for JavaScript. An issue in versions 1.4.0 to 1.5.1 allows for exposure of the home directory on Unix systems when using Bash with the `escape` or `escapeAll` functions from the _shescape_ API with the `interpolation` option set to `true`. Other tested shells, Dash and Zsh, are not affected. Depending on how the output of _shescape_ is used, directory traversal may be possible in the application using _shescape_. The issue was patched in version 1.5.1. As a workaround, manually escape all instances of the tilde character (`~`) using `arg.replace(/~/g, "\\~")`.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.2 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00499 · 41.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Published
2022-03-03T21:35Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 03 MAR 21:35Z
    Exposure of home directory through shescape on Unix with Bash
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