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Critical · 9.2 CVE-2026-73414 EUVD-2026-57531GHSA-w4hw-qcx7-56pr

Shescape: Shell injection via unescaped parentheses on Windows with CMD

Published Aug 12, 2026 · Updated Aug 14, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Shescape is a simple shell escape library for JavaScript. Prior to 2.1.14 and 3.0.1, getEscapeFunction in src/internal/win/cmd.js does not escape `(` and `)` when applications use the escape or escapeAll APIs on Windows with shell set to cmd.exe, or with shell set to true when CMD is the default. An attacker-controlled argument can break out of a parenthesized CMD construct and inject shell syntax depending on the original command, resulting in arbitrary command execution. This issue is fixed in versions 2.1.14 and 3.0.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
ericcornelissen shescape < 2.1.14, >= 3.0.0, < 3.0.1 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm shescape < 2.1.14 2.1.14 GHSA-w4hw-qcx7-56pr
npm shescape >= 3.0.0, < 3.0.1 3.0.1 GHSA-w4hw-qcx7-56pr

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