CVE-2021-42740 (GCVE-0-2021-42740)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-10-21 14:46 – Updated: 2024-08-04 03:38
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Summary
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.
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