CVE-2023-41248

Summary

CVE-2023-40185 is a vulnerability affecting Shescape, a JavaScript library for simple shell escaping. On Windows systems, the flaw can potentially result in Shescape quoting or escaping for the wrong shell in a threaded context. This misconfiguration can enable attackers to bypass protective measures, depending on the specific combination of anticipated and actual shells. The issue has been rectified in version 1.7.4 of Shescape.

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