screenshot-desktop allows capturing a screenshot of your local machine. This vulnerability is a command injection issue. When user-controlled input is passed into the format option of the screenshot function, it is interpolated into a shell command without sanitization. This results in arbitrary command execution with the privileges of the calling process. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.15.2.
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Advisories
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EUVD |
EUVD-2025-25196 | screenshot-desktop vulnerable to command Injection via `format` option |
Github GHSA |
GHSA-gjx4-2c7g-fm94 | screenshot-desktop vulnerable to command Injection via `format` option |
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| Description | screenshot-desktop allows capturing a screenshot of your local machine. This vulnerability is a command injection issue. When user-controlled input is passed into the format option of the screenshot function, it is interpolated into a shell command without sanitization. This results in arbitrary command execution with the privileges of the calling process. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.15.2. | |
| Title | Command Injection via `format` option in screenshot-desktop | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-77 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2025-08-19T20:03:52.409Z
Reserved: 2025-08-12T16:15:30.237Z
Link: CVE-2025-55294
Updated: 2025-08-19T20:03:49.133Z
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2025-08-19T18:15:29.140
Modified: 2025-08-20T14:40:17.713
Link: CVE-2025-55294
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