What is CVE-2025-55294?

CVE-2025-55294 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Bencevans Screenshot-Desktop, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2025-08-19.

How severe is CVE-2025-55294?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2025-55294 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

RCE in Bencevans Screenshot-Desktop

CVE-2025-55294

screenshot-desktop allows capturing a screenshot of your local machine. This vulnerability is a command injection issue. When user-controlled input is passed into the format option of the screenshot function, it is interpolated into a shell command without sanitization. This results in arbitrary command execution with the privileges of the calling process. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.15.2.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

EPSS: 0.014 (70.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Bencevans Screenshot-desktop — versions < 1.15.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-77 — Command Injection

Public proof-of-concept exploits

fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds

References

security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-55294?: CVE-2025-55294 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Bencevans Screenshot-Desktop, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2025-08-19.
How severe is CVE-2025-55294?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2025-55294 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.