CVE-2022-25918Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
- 5.3MediumCVSS base score
- 1.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 23% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- YesPublic exploitsa reference or SSVC says so
Description
The package shescape from 1.5.10 and before 1.6.1 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the escape function in index.js, due to the usage of insecure regex in the escapeArgBash function.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Timeline
ID reserved
By snyk
- 8 months later
· 8 months later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| snykCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.6% · top 23% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Affected products
shescape
- affected 1.5.10 – < unspecified
- affected unspecified – < 1.6.1
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmshescapeGHSA-cr84-xvw4-qx3c (opens in a new tab)
References
References4
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-SHESCAPE-3061108 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/blob/main/src/unix.js%23L52 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/commit/552e8eab56861720b1d4e5474fb65741643358f9 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/releases/tag/v1.6.1 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-7081 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-cr84-xvw4-qx3c (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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