MEDIUMVulnerability
CVE-2026-73055
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.
Properties
- severity
- MEDIUM
- score
- 4.8
- cve_id
- CVE-2026-73055
- vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- published_at
- 2026-08-15T22:16:55.427
- last_modified
- 2026-08-26T16:57:52.167
Related Entities (2)
DESCRIBED_BY (1)
→[Source]NVD
HAS_WEAKNESS (1)
→[Weakness]Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output
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