CVE-2022-25918

Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

State: Published
Severity: 5.3 Medium
Published: Oct 27, 2022
Updated: May 5, 2025
Reserved: Feb 24, 2022

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	snyk

Weaknesses

CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Affected Products

Product	Versions
shescapen/a	1.5.10 to before unspecifiedAffected before 1.6.1Affected

References

https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-SHESCAPE-3061108
https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/blob/main/src/unix.js%23L52
https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/commit/552e8eab56861720b1d4e5474fb65741643358f9
https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/releases/tag/v1.6.1

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