CVE-2022-36064

Medium

Description

Shescape is a shell escape package for JavaScript. An Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity vulnerability impacts users that use Shescape to escape arguments for the Unix shells `Bash` and `Dash`, or any not-officially-supported Unix shell; and/or using the `escape` or `escapeAll` functions with the `interpolation` option set to `true`. An attacker can cause polynomial backtracking or quadratic runtime in terms of the input string length due to two Regular Expressions in Shescape that are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS). This bug has been patched in v1.5.10. For `Dash` only, this bug has been patched since v1.5.9. As a workaround, a maximum length can be enforced on input strings to Shescape to reduce the impact of the vulnerability. It is not recommended to try and detect vulnerable input strings, as the logic for this may end up being vulnerable to ReDoS itself.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.9
Exploit probability—
ProductShescape
PublishedSep 6, 2022
First seenSep 6, 2022

How to fix

Update
  • shescape_project shescape1.5.10 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
shescape_project shescape1.5.1 ≤ v < 1.5.101.5.10

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