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