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

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.3 v4.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-08-12 · updated 2026-10-24
• Weakness: CWE-116

Description

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.

Affected products

• ericcornelissen shescape: before 2.1.14; from 3.0.0, < 3.0.1

References

• https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/commit/43d70b59d09bbe5c3fd02ef08b3a123e977ed9de
• https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/commit/b4b34c394e7f9da2775bb75381066b9a228c425f
• https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/pull/2649
• https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/pull/2651
• https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/releases/tag/v2.1.14
• https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/releases/tag/v3.0.1
• https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/security/advisories/GHSA-q53c-4prm-w95q

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