CVE-2021-42740
moderate-risk
Published 2021-10-21
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.
Do I need to act?
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9.0% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — moderate exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 9.8/10
Critical
NETWORK
/ LOW complexity
Affected Products (1)
Shell-Quote
Affected Vendors
References (6)
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/substack/node-shell-quote/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#173
Vendor Advisory
https://www.npmjs.com/package/shell-quote
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/substack/node-shell-quote/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#173
Vendor Advisory
https://www.npmjs.com/package/shell-quote
47
/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity
32/34 · Critical
Exploitability
10/34 · Low
Exposure
5/34 · Minimal