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CVE-2021-42740

9.8 criticalEPSS 4.2%

Critical (9.8) in shell-quote project shell-quote. EPSS 4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in shell-quote 1.7.3.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 90% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-77
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-g4rg-993r-mgx7npmshell-quote>=1.6.3 <1.7.31.7.3

References

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