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Server side template injection In shell-quote

Description

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command in Shell-quote The shell-quote package before 1.7.3 for Node.js allows command injection. An attacker can inject unescaped shell metacharacters through a regex designed to support Windows drive letters. If the output of this package is passed to a real shell as a quoted argument to a command with exec(), an attacker can inject arbitrary commands. This is because the Windows drive letter regex character class is [A-z] instead of the correct [A-Za-z]. Several shell metacharacters exist in the space between capital letter Z and lower case letter a, such as the backtick character.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

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