Critical severity · published Aug 1, 2022
CVE-2022-31180
Insufficient escaping of whitespace in shescape
9.8
CVSS
2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Shescape is a simple shell escape package for JavaScript. Affected versions were found to have insufficient escaping of white space when interpolating output. This issue only impacts users that use the `escape` or `escapeAll` functions with the `interpolation` option set to `true`. The result is that if an attacker is able to include whitespace in their input they can: 1. Invoke shell-specific behaviour through shell-specific special characters inserted directly after whitespace. 2. Invoke shell-specific behaviour through shell-specific special characters inserted or appearing after line terminating characters. 3. Invoke arbitrary commands by inserting a line feed character. 4. Invoke arbitrary commands by inserting a carriage return character. Behaviour number 1 has been patched in [v1.5.7] which you can upgrade to now. No further changes are required. Behaviour number 2, 3, and 4 have been patched in [v1.5.8] which you can upgrade to now. No further changes are required. The best workaround is to avoid having to use the `interpolation: true` option - in most cases using an alternative is possible, see [the recipes](https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape#recipes) for recommendations. Alternatively, users may strip all whitespace from user input. Note that this is error prone, for example: for PowerShell this requires stripping `'\u0085'` which is not included in JavaScript's definition of `\s` for Regular Expressions.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.0% · higher than 81% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SH
shescape · ericcornelissen
>=1.4.0 < 1.5.8 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-31180
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-31180
Patch
https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/pull/322
Patch
https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/pull/324
Release Notes
https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/releases/tag/v1.5.7
Release Notes
https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/releases/tag/v1.5.8
Exploit
https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/security/advisories/GHSA-44vr-rwwj-p88h
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