CVE-2022-24725

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    CVE-2022-24725

    Published: 3 Mar 2022Last Modified: 21 Oct 2026

    Summary: Exposure of home directory through shescape on Unix with Bash

    Details: Shescape is a shell escape package for JavaScript. An issue in versions 1.4.0 to 1.5.1 allows for exposure of the home directory on Unix systems when using Bash with the `escape` or `escapeAll` functions from the _shescape_ API with the `interpolation` option set to `true`. Other tested shells, Dash and Zsh, are not affected. Depending on how the output of _shescape_ is used, directory traversal may be possible in the application using _shescape_. The issue was patched in version 1.5.1. As a workaround, manually escape all instances of the tilde character (`~`) using `arg.replace(/~/g, "\\~")`.

    References: https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/24xxx/CVE-2022-24725.json, https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/security/advisories/GHSA-446w-rrm4-r47f, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24725, https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/issues/169, https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/pull/170

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 8e0d66f7d69d12c96dce8fc9c539b7d9390dc425
    Fixed -542532a64e24ea85044259345451010ca0cce71e

    Affected versions

    v1.5.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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