Description
The package shescape from 1.5.10 and before 1.6.1 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the escape function in index.js, due to the usage of insecure regex in the escapeArgBash function.
Remediation
References
https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/blob/main/src/unix.js%23L52
https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/commit/552e8eab56861720b1d4e5474fb65741643358f9
https://github.com/ericcornelissen/shescape/releases/tag/v1.6.1
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-SHESCAPE-3061108
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