CVE-2026-73055 (GCVE-0-2026-73055)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-15 21:44
Modified
2026-08-17 16:06
Severity ?
9.3 (Critical) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
4.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
4.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-116 - Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output
Summary
Shescape before 2.1.15 (and 3.0.0 before 3.0.2) fails to properly escape tilde (~) characters in assignment contexts on Unix systems where the shell is explicitly configured to "sh" or true and /bin/sh points to BusyBox. Using the escape and escapeAll APIs with untrusted input in an assignment prefixed to a command, an attacker can inject a tilde payload to disclose the user's home directory location and, depending on usage, alter the location on which a command operates.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ericcornelissen | shescape |
Version: 0 ≤ |
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Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date |
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Nomenclature
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