🛡️ CVE-2022-0144 — shelljs

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-269 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Improper Privilege Management in shelljs

shelljs is vulnerable to Improper Privilege Management

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-0144 is classified as CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management. Privileges are assigned, dropped or restored incorrectly, leaving an actor with more access than intended.

Affected software

CVE-2022-0144 is recorded against 1 package.

  • shelljs

Timeline and source

Published on 21 January 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
huntr.dev (Web)

CVE-2022-0144 on other distributions

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Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-269
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source OSV
Published 2022-01-21
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
shelljs — —

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