CVE-2021-42740 · cross-distro fix matrix

CVE-2021-42740: The shell-quote package before 1.7.3 for Node.js allows command injection. An attacker can inject unescaped shell metacharacters through a regex designed to support Windows drive letters. If the output of this package is passed to a real shell as a quoted argument to a command with exec(), an attack

Affects 2 Linux releases across 2 (distro × package) combinations.

Fix per ecosystem

Each block below is a distro release where CVE-2021-42740 has a known fix. Run the listed command on that distro to remediate.

Debian bookworm

Source: Debian Security Tracker

node-shell-quote→ fixed in1.7.3+~1.7.1-1urgency: not yet assigned
```
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y node-shell-quote
```

Debian trixie

Source: Debian Security Tracker

node-shell-quote→ fixed in1.7.3+~1.7.1-1urgency: not yet assigned
```
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y node-shell-quote
```

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