CVE-2025-55294

CRITICAL

9.8

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score9.8

SeverityCRITICAL

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published8/19/2025

Last Modified8/20/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-77

References

https://github.com/bencevans/screenshot-desktop/commit/59c87b0c175eec76090e6ccde313f4fc5d569b78(security-advisories@github.com)

https://github.com/bencevans/screenshot-desktop/security/advisories/GHSA-gjx4-2c7g-fm94(security-advisories@github.com)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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