CVE-2022-31179CWE-74

Insufficient escaping of line feeds for CMD in shescape

High · published August 1, 2022

CVSS v3.1
8.1
EPSS
1%
Percentile
72.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Shescape is a simple shell escape package for JavaScript. Versions prior to 1.5.8 were found to be subject to code injection on windows. This impacts users that use Shescape (any API function) to escape arguments for cmd.exe on Windows An attacker can omit all arguments following their input by including a line feed character (`'\n'`) in the payload. This bug has been patched in [v1.5.8] which you can upgrade to now. No further changes are required. Alternatively, line feed characters (`'\n'`) can be stripped out manually or the user input can be made the last argument (this only limits the impact).

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.1 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01424 · 72.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-74 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')
Published
2022-08-01T19:20Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 AUG 19:20Z
    Insufficient escaping of line feeds for CMD in shescape
    cvelistv5