Resource exhaustion in Ericcornelissen Shescape

CVE-2022-36064

Shescape is a shell escape package for JavaScript. An Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity vulnerability impacts users that use Shescape to escape arguments for the Unix shells `Bash` and `Dash`, or any not-officially-supported Unix s…

Vulnerability class: ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.006 (68.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-36064?
CVE-2022-36064 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ericcornelissen Shescape, classified under Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2022-09-06.
How severe is CVE-2022-36064?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.
Is CVE-2022-36064 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.