CVE-2022-25918

high

Description

The package shescape from 1.5.10 and before 1.6.1 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the escape function in index.js, due to the usage of insecure regex in the escapeArgBash function.

References

Advisories
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https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/releases/tag/v1.6.1

https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/commit/552e8eab56861720b1d4e5474fb65741643358f9

https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-SHESCAPE-3061108

https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/blob/main/src/unix.js%23L52

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-10-27

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H