Potential Command Injection in shell-quote

published 2018-05-31 8 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also GHSA-qg8p-v9q4-gh34 , EUVD-2019-0328

cvss: 9.8; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 2.2%; EPSS 2.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 82%
public exploits: 0; none known

The npm module "shell-quote" 1.6.0 and earlier cannot correctly escape ">" and "<" operator used for redirection in shell. Applications that depend on shell-quote may also be vulnerable. A malicious user could perform code injection.

Patch / fix

fixed in 2

npm shell-quote 1.6.1
shell-quote_project shell-quote 1.6.1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-10541 updated 2026-01-09 cvss 8.4

nodejs-shell-quote: Command Injection via bash escape characters

Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4 nodejs-shell-quote
not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

github.com https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qg8p-v9q4-gh34 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	9.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	7.5	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub	3.0	9.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
npm	shell-quote	<1.6.1	1.6.1

Affected products

HackerOne shell-quote node module

Classification

Weakness

CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command
CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

References

github.com /advisories/GHSA-qg8p-v9q4-gh34
advisory, exploit, third-party-advisory
nodesecurity.io /advisories/117
third-party-advisory
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10541
advisory
npmjs.com /advisories/117
web

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

Summary