CVE-2023-40185

Publication date

2023-08-23 20:20:45

Family

GitHub_M

State

PUBLISHED

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.