Medium 6.3Published Aug 12, 2026

CVE-2026-73411Shescape: Home-directory disclosure in assignment context on Unix with Dash

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-19 07:30 UTC)

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Shescape is a simple shell escape library for JavaScript. Prior to 2.1.14 and 3.0.1, getEscapeFunction in src/internal/unix/dash.js fails to escape ~ after : or = when applications use the escape or escapeAll APIs on Unix with shell set to dash, or with shell set to true when Dash is the default, and interpolate the result into an assignment prefixed to a command. An attacker who controls the input can supply a value such as :~ to disclose the home-directory path and may change the location on which the command operates. This issue is fixed in versions 2.1.14 and 3.0.1.

CVSS: 6.3 MEDIUM (v4.0, CNA)CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-116, CWE-200
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: GitHub_M
NVD analysis: Deferred
Record last updated: Aug 12, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

ericcornelissen shescape ericcornelissen:shescape (from the name)	before 2.1.14; from 3.0.0, < 3.0.1	CNA record

References

https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/security/advisories/GHSA-q53c-4prm-w95qx-refsource-confirm
https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/pull/2649x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/pull/2651x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/commit/43d70b59d09bbe5c3fd02ef08b3a123e977ed9dex-refsource-misc
https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/commit/b4b34c394e7f9da2775bb75381066b9a228c425fx-refsource-misc
https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/releases/tag/v2.1.14x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/releases/tag/v3.0.1x-refsource-misc

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