CVE-2022-25918

Published: Oct 27, 2022

Modified: May 5, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

5.3

MEDIUM

Description

The package shescape from 1.5.10 and before 1.6.1 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the escape function in index.js, due to the usage of insecure regex in the escapeArgBash function.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	shescape	affected `1.5.10 - < unspecified` affected `unspecified - < 1.6.1`

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Low

References

https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-SHESCAPE-3061108

https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/blob/main/src/unix.js%23L52

https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/commit/552e8eab56861720b1d4e5474fb65741643358f9

https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/releases/tag/v1.6.1

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CVE-2022-25918

Description

Affected Products

CVSS v3.1 Details

References