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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.5 Medium

CVE-2023-40185

Shescape on Windows escaping may be bypassed in threaded context

Description

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

ericcornelissen shescape

  • < 1.7.4affected

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