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    CVE-2021-42740

    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.

    Published:Oct 21, 2021
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:Oct 21, 2021
    EPSS Score:0.07572
    CVSS Score:9.8

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Shell-quote Project
    Product
    Shell-quote

    Exploits

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