CVE-2026-9277: shell-quote quote() does not escape newlines in object .op values
shell-quote’s quote() function did not validate object-token inputs against the operator model used by parse(). The .op field was backslash-escaped character by character using /(.)/g, which in JavaScript does not match line terminators (\n, \r, U+2028, U+2029). A line terminator in .op therefore passed through unescaped into the output; POSIX shells treat a literal \n as a command separator, so any content after it would execute as a second command.
The vulnerable code path is reachable in two ways. Neither requires the parser to misbehave — parse() only emits ops from a fixed control set — but both are documented API surface:
- Direct construction. A caller builds
{ op: '...\n...' }from external input (e.g. a deserialized argument array) and passes it toquote(). envFnreturn.parse(cmd, envFn)is documented to splice the return value ofenvFninto the result array when it is an object. An attacker-influenced data source consulted byenvFncan introduce an object token whose.opreachesquote().
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