CVE-2021-42740

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-42740
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-42740.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-42740
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2021-10-21T15:15:07.633Z
Modified
2026-07-09T00:37:30.384801Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/ljharb/shell-quote

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/ljharb/shell-quote
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
Database specific
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:shell-quote_project:shell-quote:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*",
    "source": "CPE_RANGE",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "1.7.3"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v0.*
v0.0.0
v0.0.1
v0.1.0
v0.1.1
v1.*
v1.0.0
v1.1.0
v1.2.0
v1.3.0
v1.3.1
v1.3.2
v1.3.3
v1.4.0
v1.4.1
v1.4.2
v1.4.3
v1.5.0
v1.6.0
v1.6.1
v1.6.2
v1.6.3
v1.7.0
v1.7.1
v1.7.2

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-42740.json"