CVE-2022-25918 (GCVE-0-2022-25918)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-10-27 05:05
Modified
2025-05-05 18:24
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
Summary
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
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a shescape Version: 1.5.10   < unspecified
Version: unspecified   < 1.6.1
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