CVE-2025-55294

Command Injection via `format` option in screenshot-desktop

State
Published
Severity
9.8 Critical
Published
Aug 19, 2025
Updated
Aug 19, 2025
Reserved
Aug 12, 2025

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Description

screenshot-desktop allows capturing a screenshot of your local machine. This vulnerability is a command injection issue. When user-controlled input is passed into the format option of the screenshot function, it is interpolated into a shell command without sanitization. This results in arbitrary command execution with the privileges of the calling process. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.15.2.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.19.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-77 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
screenshot-desktopbencevans
  • < 1.15.2Affected

References

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