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CVE-2022-25918: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-10-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-1333

Description

The package shescape from 1.5.10 and before 1.6.1 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the escape function in index.js, due to the usage of insecure regex in the escapeArgBash function.

Affected products

• ericcornelissen shescape: 1.5.10, 1.6.0

References

• https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/blob/main/src/unix.js%23L52
• https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/commit/552e8eab56861720b1d4e5474fb65741643358f9
• https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/releases/tag/v1.6.1
• https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-SHESCAPE-3061108
• https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/blob/main/src/unix.js%23L52
• https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/commit/552e8eab56861720b1d4e5474fb65741643358f9
• https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/releases/tag/v1.6.1
• https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-SHESCAPE-3061108

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