GHSA-g4rg-993r-mgx7CriticalCVSS 9.8

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command in Shell-quote

Published
May 24, 2022
Last Modified
September 10, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

The shell-quote package before 1.7.3 for Node.js allows command injection. An attacker can inject unescaped shell metacharacters through a regex designed to support Windows drive letters. If the output of this package is passed to a real shell as a quoted argument to a command with exec(), an attacker can inject arbitrary commands. This is because the Windows drive letter regex character class is [A-z] instead of the correct [A-Za-z]. Several shell metacharacters exist in the space between capital letter Z and lower case letter a, such as the backtick character.

🎯 Affected products1

  • npm/shell-quote:>= 1.6.3, <= 1.7.2

🔗 References (5)