CVE-2026-73055 Shescape before 2.1.15 and 3.0.2 Home Directory Disclosure via BusyBox

Shescape before 2.1.15 and 3.0.0 before 3.0.2 fails to properly escape tilde characters in assignment contexts on Unix systems where the shell is explicitly configured to "sh" or true and /bin/sh points to BusyBox. Using the escape and escapeAll APIs with untrusted input in an assignment prefixed...

Command Injection

Overview shescape is a simple shell escape library Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection via the getEscapeFunction function when using the escape or escapeAll APIs on Windows with shell set to cmd.exe, or with shell set to true when CMD is the default. An attacker...

CVE-2026-73411

Shescape is a simple shell escape library for JavaScript. Prior to 2.1.14 and 3.0.1, getEscapeFunction in src/internal/unix/dash.js fails to escape after : or = when applications use the escape or escapeAll APIs on Unix with shell set to dash, or with shell set to true when Dash is the default, a...

PT-2026-71290

Shescape is a simple shell escape library for JavaScript. Prior to 2.1.14 and 3.0.1, this impacts users of Shescape on Unix systems that explicitly configure shell to Zsh, or true when the default shell is Zsh, using the escape and escapeAll. The Zsh options EXTENDED GLOB and MAGIC EQUAL SUBST...

CVE-2026-73412: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command

Shescape is a simple shell escape library for JavaScript. Prior to 2.1.14 and 3.0.1, this impacts users of Shescape on Unix systems that explicitly configure shell to Zsh, or true when the default shell is Zsh, using the escape and escapeAll. The Zsh options EXTENDEDGLOB and MAGICEQUALSUBST...

CVE-2022-36064: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Shescape is a shell escape package for JavaScript. An Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity vulnerability impacts users that use Shescape to escape arguments for the Unix shells Bash and Dash, or any not-officially-supported Unix shell; and/or using the escape or escapeAll functions with the...

CVE-2022-31180

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 ...

Input validation

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 ...

PT-2022-20592 · Microsoft +1 · Powershell +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Shescape versions prior to 1.5.8 Description: The issue impacts users of the escape or escapeAll functions with the interpolation option set to true. If an attacker can include whitespace in their input, they can invoke shell-specific behavio...

Path Traversal

shescape is vulnerable to path traversal. When the interpolation option is set, an attacker can access files outside the expected directory by using bash with the escape or escapeAll functions in the shescape API...