CVE-2023-35931

Shescape potential environment variable exposure on Windows with CMD

Severity Score

4.3

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

Shescape is a simple shell escape library for JavaScript. An attacker may be able to get read-only access to environment variables. This bug has been patched in version 1.7.1.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

None

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

None

Availability

None

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2023-06-20 CVE Reserved
2023-06-23 CVE Published
2024-06-29 EPSS Updated
2024-08-02 CVE Updated
2024-08-02 First Exploit
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-526: Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in an Environment Variable

CAPEC

References (4)

URL	Tag	Source
https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/releases/tag/v1.7.1	Release Notes

URL	Date	SRC
https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/security/advisories/GHSA-3g7p-8qhx-mc8r	2024-08-02

URL	Date	SRC
https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/commit/d0fce70f987ac0d8331f93cb45d47e79436173ac	2023-07-04
https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/pull/982	2023-07-04

URL	Date	SRC

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Shescape Project Search vendor "Shescape Project"		Shescape Search vendor "Shescape Project" for product "Shescape"				< 1.7.1 Search vendor "Shescape Project" for product "Shescape" and version " < 1.7.1"		node.js		Affected