CVE-2021-42740

Published Oct 21, 2021 CVSS 3.1 · 9.8 Critical EPSS 4.2% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

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Advisories

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-3886 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-g4rg-993r-mgx7 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command in Shell-quote
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 3:38 AM
Reserved
Oct 20, 2021, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Oct 21, 2021, 3:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 4:10 AM