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CVE-2022-24725: Exposure of home directory through shescape on Unix with Bash

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 22/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.49% (FIRST EPSS).
Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
Fixed version: ericcornelissen shescape 1.5.1.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to ericcornelissen shescape 1.5.1 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

Shescape is a shell escape package for JavaScript. An issue in versions 1.4.0 to 1.5.1 allows for exposure of the home directory on Unix systems when using Bash with the `escape` or `escapeAll` functions from the _shescape_ API with the `interpolation` option set to `true`. Other tested shells, Dash and Zsh, are not affected. Depending on how the output of _shescape_ is used, directory traversal may be possible in the application using _shescape_. The issue was patched in version 1.5.1. As a workaround, manually escape all instances of the tilde character (`~`) using `arg.replace(/~/g, "\\~")`.

MediumCVSS 5.5 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available

GHSA-446w-rrm4-r47f

Published: Mar 3, 2022
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 0.4% · 42th percentile
CWE: CWE-200

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 22 / 40 · 5.5 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.4%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: proof of concept
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: 5.5
CNA · GitHub_M: 6.2; 0.7 point gap

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
shescape project	shescape	cpe:2.3:a:shescape_project:shescape

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

shescape project shescape1.4.0 and later · before 1.5.1

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (GitHub_M). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

ericcornelissen shescape
- >= 1.4.0, < 1.5.1affected

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Ecosystem	Package	Affected range	Fix
npm	shescape	from 1.4.0 · before 1.5.1	1.5.1

Same product

shescape project: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2022-31180Insufficient escaping of whitespace in shescape
40Plan
CVE-2022-31179Insufficient escaping of line feeds for CMD in shescape
39Monitor
CVE-2023-40185Shescape on Windows escaping may be bypassed in threaded context
34Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2021-21384Mar 18, 2021 · Null characters not escaped in shescape
31Monitor
Later →CVE-2022-36064Sep 6, 2022 · Shescape Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity vulnerability
30Monitor
Later →CVE-2022-25918Oct 27, 2022 · Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
30Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
ericcornelissen shescape	1.5.1 · description	Vendor (CNA)
npm:shescape	1.5.1	Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

ericcornelissen/shescapePR 170

Credits

All researchers

Finders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.

No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
A low-privileged account is enough.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: high · data can be read
Integrity: none
Availability: none

Attack vector: Local
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: High
Integrity impact: None
Availability impact: None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

nvd-primary

Root cause

The extension requests broader permissions than its function needs and sends the data it collects out for purposes beyond its stated function.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-200 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

json

1{
2  "permissions": ["tabs", "<all_urls>"],
3  "background": { "service_worker": "analytics.js" }
4}

Fixed

json

1{
2  "permissions": ["activeTab"],
3  "host_permissions": ["https://yildiz.example/*"]
4}

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

Change log

Fix✗ → ✓Sep 28, 2026, 10:46 PM UTC

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References

github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/pull/170

Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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