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CVE-2021-42740

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 EPSS 4.06% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2021-10-21 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a critical severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.8. It affects Windows. Public exploit code or proof-of-concept references have been detected in its references.

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CVE
CVE-2021-42740
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
EPSS
4.06%
Windows

Original NVD Description

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.

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