CVE-2023-40185 Information

Description

shescape is simple shell escape library for JavaScript. This may impact users that use Shescape on Windows in a threaded context. The vulnerability can result in Shescape escaping (or quoting) for the wrong shell thus allowing attackers to bypass protections depending on the combination of expected and used shell. This bug has been patched in version 1.7.4.

Reference

https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/pull/1142 https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/security/advisories/GHSA-j55r-787p-m549 https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/commit/0b976dab645abf45ffd85e74a8c6e51ee2f42d63 https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/releases/tag/v1.7.4