CVE-2022-25918

The package shescape from 1.5.10 and before 1.6.1 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the escape function in index.js, due to the usage of insecure regex in the escapeArgBash function.

• CWE-1333
• CWE-1333

• https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/blob/main/src/unix.js%23L52Broken Link
• https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/commit/552e8eab56861720b1d4e5474fb65741643358f9Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/releases/tag/v1.6.1Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
• https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-SHESCAPE-3061108Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/blob/main/src/unix.js%23L52Broken Link
• https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/commit/552e8eab56861720b1d4e5474fb65741643358f9Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/releases/tag/v1.6.1Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
• https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-SHESCAPE-3061108Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory

Published

Oct 27, 2022

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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