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CVE-2025-30222 — shescape

Fix: ericcornelissen/shescape@0a81f1e

CVE-2025-30222 is a Information Exposure vulnerability in shescape. A fix is available for shescape — see the affected versions and patch details below.

Shescape has potential environment variable exposure on Windows with CMD

Also known asGHSA-66pp-5p9w-q87j
Published
Mar 25, 2025
Updated
Aug 12, 2026
Affected
1 pkg
Patched
1 / 1
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Sep 22, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

Exploitation Status

Proof-of-concept exploit code exists

  • CISA’s SSVC triage found public proof-of-concept exploit code for this CVE, though no confirmed active exploitation.

Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2025-30222.

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
0.2%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs9th percentile — riskier than 9% of all scored CVEsHighest risk

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a daily probability model maintained by FIRST.org. It estimates the likelihood a CVE will be exploited in production environments within the next 30 days, derived from real-world threat intelligence signals.

Real-World Exposure

1 pkg affected

How broadly this vulnerability is actually deployed: weekly install volume shows current usage, and reverse-dependency count shows how many other packages break if it stays unpatched.

24other npm packages depend on this — each one inherits the vulnerability until it's patched upstream
shescapenpm
11Kdownloads / week

Description

Impact

This impact users of Shescape on Windows that explicitly configure shell: 'cmd.exe' or shell: true using any of quote/quoteAll/escape/escapeAll.

An attacker may be able to get read-only access to environment variables. Example:

import * as cp from "node:child_process";
import { Shescape } from "shescape";

// 1. Prerequisites
const shescape = new Shescape({
    shell: "cmd.exe",
    // Or
    shell: true, // Only if the default shell is CMD
});

// 2. Payload
const payload = '"%PATH%';

// 3. Usage
let escapedPayload;

escapedPayload = shescape.quote(payload);
// Or
escapedPayload = shescape.quoteAll([payload]);
// Or
escapedPayload = shescape.escape(payload);
// Or
escapedPayload = shescape.escapeAll([payload]);

// And (example)
const result = cp.execSync(`echo Hello ${escapedPayload}`, options);

// 4. Impact
console.log(result.toString());
// Outputs "Hello" followed by the contents of the PATH environment variable

For Shescape prior to v2.0.0, the options object must have shell: 'cmd.exe' or shell: undefined and interpolation: true.

Patches

This bug has been patched in v2.1.2 which you can upgrade to now.

If you are already using v2 of Shescape, no further changes are required. If you are using v1 of Shescape, follow the migration guide to upgrade to v2. There is no plan to release a patch compatible with v1 of Shescape.

Workarounds

Alternatively, users can remove all instances of % from user input before using Shescape.

References

For more information

Affected Packages

1 total 1 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
📦npmshescape≥ 1.7.2&&< 2.1.22.1.2npm install shescape@2.1.2

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency

  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for shescape, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

  2. Fix

    Update shescape to 2.1.2 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2025-30222 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.

  3. Workarounds

    If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.

  4. How O3 protects you

    O3 Security's impact-aware SCA analyses which vulnerable code paths your application actually calls, so a match like CVE-2025-30222 can be triaged on real exposure rather than presence alone.

Tailored to CVE-2025-30222. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.

Frequently Asked Questions

### Impact This impact users of Shescape on Windows that explicitly configure `shell: 'cmd.exe'` or `shell: true` using any of `quote`/`quoteAll`/`escape`/`escapeAll`. An attacker may be able to get read-only access to environment variables. Example: ```javascript import * as cp from "node:child_process"; import { Shescape } from "shescape"; // 1. Prerequisites const shescape = new Shescape({ shell: "cmd.exe", // Or shell: true, // Only if the default shell is CMD }); // 2. Payload const payload = '"%PATH%'; // 3. Usage let escapedPayload; escapedPayload = shescape.quote(pay
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