CVE-2021-42740

CRITICAL

shell-quote < 1.7.3 - Command Injection via Windows Drive Letter Regex

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.npmjs.com/package/shell-quote

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0434
EPSS Percentile 90.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-77
Status published
Products (2)
npm/shell-quote 1.6.3 - 1.7.3npm
shell-quote_project/shell-quote < 1.7.3
Published Oct 21, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026