CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-73055

6.3 MEDIUM Published 2026-08-15 Modified 2026-08-31 Official page ↗
Status
Deferred
Published
2026-08-15
Last modified
2026-08-31
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
6.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-116, CWE-200

Description

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.

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-116 Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness

References