CVE-2021-42740

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.

• CVE ID
• CVE-2021-42740

• Assigner
• cve@mitre.org

• Vulnerability Status
• Analyzed

• Published Version
• 2021-10-21T15:15:07

• Last Modified Date
• 2021-10-28T13:54:18

• Version
• 2.0

• Vector String
• AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

• Access Vector
• NETWORK

• Access Compatibility
• LOW

• Authentication
• NONE

• Confidentiality Impact
• PARTIAL

• Integrity Impact
• PARTIAL

• Availability Impact
• PARTIAL

• Base Score
• 7.5

• Severity
• HIGH

• Exploitability Score
• 10

• Impact Score
• 6.4

• Version
• 3.1

• Vector String
• CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

• Attack Vector
• NETWORK

• Attack Compatibility
• LOW

• Privileges Required
• NONE

• User Interaction
• NONE

• Scope
• UNCHANGED

• Confidentiality Impact
• HIGH

• Availability Impact
• HIGH

• Base Score
• 9.8

• Base Severity
• CRITICAL

• Exploitability Score
• 3.9

• Impact Score
• 5.9