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GHSA-g4rg-993r-mgx7

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command in Shell-quote

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Critical CVE-2021-42740

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
npm shell-quote >= 1.6.3, < 1.7.3 1.7.3

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

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.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.