CVE-2023-40185

high

Description

shescape 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.

References

https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/security/advisories/GHSA-j55r-787p-m549

https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/releases/tag/v1.7.4

https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/pull/1142

https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/commit/0b976dab645abf45ffd85e74a8c6e51ee2f42d63

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-08-23

Updated: 2023-09-01

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: High