CVE-2021-42740
CRITICALshell-quote < 1.7.3 - Command Injection via Windows Drive Letter Regex
Title source: llmDescription
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
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/substack/node-shell-quote/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#173
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/substack/node-shell-quote/commit/5799416ed454aa4ec9afafc895b4e31760ea1abe
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