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Advisory record · GHSA-p24j-h477-76q3

Uncontrolled Search Path Element in sharkdp/bat

CVSS 7.8 HighEPSS 0.0036 · 29th percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 25 Aug 2021, 21:01 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
batcrates.io<0.18.20.18.2
Identifiers
GHSA-p24j-h477-76q3 · CVE-2021-36753 · RUSTSEC-2021-0106
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-427
Tags
Published
25 Aug 2021
Updated
8 Nov 2023

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

bat versions before 0.18.2 on Windows run a program named less.exe from the current working directory. An attacker who can place a malicious less.exe in a directory the user works from could get that program executed. Upgrade bat to version 0.18.2 or later.

Written 9 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.8 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H GitHub Advisory Database
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0036, the 29th percentile, on 11 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 15:21 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 15:21 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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