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CVE-2026-73055: Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output in ericcornelissen shescape

0
Medium
Published: 08/15/2026 (08/15/2026, 21:44:54 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Vendor/Project: ericcornelissen
Product: shescape

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.

CVSS v4.0

Score 6.3medium

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Attack Requirements
Present
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Vuln. Confidentiality
Low
Vuln. Integrity
Low
Vuln. Availability
None
Subsq. Confidentiality
None
Subsq. Integrity
None
Subsq. Availability
None
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected software

Affected versions
>=0 <2.1.15>=3.0.0 <3.0.23.0.0

Technical Details

Data Version
5.2
Assigner Short Name
VulnCheck
Date Reserved
2026-08-10T19:10:18.101Z
Cvss Version
4.0
State
PUBLISHED
Remediation Level
null

Threat ID: 6a80e09dbf8831d539c1fe64

Added to database: 08/15/2026, 21:56:45 UTC

Last enriched: 08/23/2026, 13:26:14 UTC

Last updated: 09/05/2026, 22:52:13 UTC

Views: 81

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