UBUNTU-CVE-2021-42740

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-42740
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2021/UBUNTU-CVE-2021-42740.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2021-42740
Related
Published
2021-10-21T15:15:00Z
Modified
2024-10-15T14:08:28Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS / node-shell-quote

Package

Name
node-shell-quote
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/node-shell-quote?arch=src?distro=esm-apps/bionic

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*

1.6.1+20160617-git72fb5a8ce29b-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "ubuntu_priority": "medium"
}

Ubuntu:22.04:LTS / node-shell-quote

Package

Name
node-shell-quote
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/node-shell-quote?arch=src?distro=jammy

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.7.3+~1.7.1-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "ubuntu_priority": "medium",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "1.7.3+~1.7.1-1",
            "binary_name": "node-shell-quote"
        }
    ]
}