CVE-2023-40185mediumCWE-150

CVE-2023-40185: medium-severity vulnerability in ericcornelissen shescape

Shescape on Windows escaping may be bypassed in threaded context

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13Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 6.5epss 0.7%
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Affected products
ericcornelissen · shescape
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