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Fencer Vulns
high 7.1

CVE-2022-0144 json

Improper Privilege Management in shelljs/shelljs

published 2022-01-11 4 y ago modified 2026-10-08 31 d ago also GHSA-4rq4-32rv-6wp6 , EUVD-2022-0448

cvss
7.1
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 40%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

shelljs is vulnerable to Improper Privilege Management

Patch / fix

  • npm shelljs 0.8.5
  • shelljs shelljs/shelljs 0.8.5
  • node-shelljs Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.8.5+~cs0.8.10-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-0144

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-2022-0144 updated cvss 7.1

nodejs-shelljs: improper privilege management

  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 rhacm2/console, rhacm2/search-ui-rhel8, rhacm2/kui-web-terminal-rhel8
    affected: no fix available, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Virtualization 4 ovirt-web-ui, ovirt-engine-ui-extensions
    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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
31 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.46% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 40% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • huntr.dev https://huntr.dev/bounties/50996581-c08e-4eed-a90e-c0bac082679c referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 7.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 3.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.0 7.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm shelljs
<0.8.5
0.8.5

Affected products

  • shelljs shelljs/shelljs

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

References

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.