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.

Remediation

References

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

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

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Severity

High

Classification

CWE-1333 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Tags

Broken Link Patch Third Party Advisory Release Notes Exploit