CVE-2022-25918 (GCVE-0-2022-25918)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-10-27 05:05 – Updated: 2025-05-05 18:24
VLAI?
Title
Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
Summary
The package shescape from 1.5.10 and before 1.6.1 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the escape function in index.js, due to the usage of insecure regex in the escapeArgBash function.
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a shescape Affected: 1.5.10 , < unspecified (custom)
Affected: unspecified , < 1.6.1 (custom)
Credits
Elliot Ward - Snyk Research Team
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