Vulnerability CVE-2023-40185
Published: 2023-08-23

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.

Type:

CWE-150

 (Improper Neutralization of Escape, Meta, or Control Sequences)

 References:
https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/pull/1142
https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/security/advisories/GHSA-j55r-787p-m549
https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/commit/0b976dab645abf45ffd85e74a8c6e51ee2f42d63
https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/releases/tag/v1.7.4
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