Insufficient escaping of whitespace in shescape

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-31180",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "Insufficient escaping of whitespace in shescape",
    "summary": "Shescape is a simple shell escape package for JavaScript. Affected versions were found to have insufficient escaping of white space when interpolating output. This issue only impacts users that use the `escape` or `escapeAll` functions with the `interpolation` option set to `true`. The result is that if an attacker is able to include whitespace in their input they can: 1. Invoke shell-specific behaviour through shell-specific special characters inserted directly after whitespace. 2. Invoke shell-specific behaviour through shell-specific special characters inserted or appearing after line terminating characters. 3. Invoke arbitrary commands by inserting a line feed character. 4. Invoke arbitrary commands by inserting a carriage return character. Behaviour number 1 has been patched in [v1.5.7] which you can upgrade to now. No further changes are required. Behaviour number 2, 3, and 4 have been patched in [v1.5.8] which you can upgrade to now. No further changes are required. The best workaround is to avoid having to use the `interpolation: true` option - in most cases using an alternative is possible, see [the recipes](https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape#recipes) for recommendations. Alternatively, users may strip all whitespace from user input. Note that this is error prone, for example: for PowerShell this requires stripping `'\\u0085'` which is not included in JavaScript's definition of `\\s` for Regular Expressions.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2022-31180",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
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        "GHSA-44vr-rwwj-p88h"
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          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
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              "repo": "https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape",
              "type": "GIT",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:49.001546214Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/releases/tag/v1.5.7",
        "https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/releases/tag/v1.5.8",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/31xxx/CVE-2022-31180.json",
        "https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/security/advisories/GHSA-44vr-rwwj-p88h",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-31180",
        "https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/pull/322",
        "https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/pull/324"
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        "cwe_ids": [
          "CWE-74"
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        "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 517373,
  "published_at": "2022-08-01T19:15:16+00:00"
}