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DEBIAN-CVE-2021-42740

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-42740 PUBLISHED CVSS 9.800000190734863 CRITICAL

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.1
9.800000190734863
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:13node-shell-quote0, 0, 0
Debian:12node-shell-quote0, 0, 0
Debian:14node-shell-quote0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Oct 21, 2021 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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