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CVE-2026-73055

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.8 Published: 2026-08-15 Modified: 2026-08-17

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.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-116

References