Paper/Archive/CVE-2021-42740

CVE-2021-42740

mitre — The shell-quote package before 1.7.3 for Node.js allows command injection.

Description · from the CVE record

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.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
n/an/a–CNA

Scores by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

refnpmjs.com/package/shell-quoterefgithub.com/substack/node-shell-quote/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#173refgithub.com/substack/node-shell-quote/commit/5799416ed454aa4ec9afafc895b4e31760ea1abe