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Medium · 4.8 CVE-2026-73055 EUVD-2026-59804GHSA-jfpg-hfv5-2rf7

Shescape before 2.1.15 and 3.0.2 Home Directory Disclosure via BusyBox

Published Aug 15, 2026 · Updated Aug 31, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
ericcornelissen shescape < 2.1.15, 3.0.0 – < 3.0.2 2.1.15

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