Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting node-shell-quote package, versions <1.7.3+~1.7.1-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.66% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-NODESHELLQUOTE-1769229
  • published31 Oct 2021
  • disclosed21 Oct 2021

Introduced: 21 Oct 2021

CVE-2021-42740  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-77  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable node-shell-quote to version 1.7.3+~1.7.1-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream node-shell-quote package and not the node-shell-quote package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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