CVE-2023-40185

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Summary

CVECVE-2023-40185
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-08-23 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-09-01 18:02:00 UTC
Descriptionshescape is simple shell escape library for JavaScript. This may impact users that use Shescape on Windows in a threaded context. The vulnerability can result in Shescape escaping (or quoting) for the wrong shell, thus allowing attackers to bypass protections depending on the combination of expected and used shell. This bug has been patched in version 1.7.4.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-150

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Microsoft Windows - All All All
Application Shescape Project Shescape All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Release Release v1.7.4 · ericcornelissen/shescape · GitHub MISC github.com
Provide explicit `$PATH` value to which by ericcornelissen · Pull Request #1142 · ericcornelissen/shescape · GitHub MISC github.com
Windows escaping may be bypassed in threaded context · Advisory · ericcornelissen/shescape · GitHub MISC github.com
Provide explicit `$PATH` value to which (#1142) · ericcornelissen/shescape@0b976da · GitHub MISC github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 994969 NodeJs (Npm) Security Update for shescape (GHSA-j55r-787p-m549)

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