Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-40185 - Unspecified vulnerability in Shescape Project Shescape
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
NONE Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
References
- https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/commit/0b976dab645abf45ffd85e74a8c6e51ee2f42d63
- https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/commit/0b976dab645abf45ffd85e74a8c6e51ee2f42d63
- https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/pull/1142
- https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/pull/1142
- https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/releases/tag/v1.7.4
- https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/releases/tag/v1.7.4
- https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/security/advisories/GHSA-j55r-787p-m549
- https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/security/advisories/GHSA-j55r-787p-m549