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shell-quote 1.6.0 vulnerabilities, and the version that fixes all of them

shell-quote 1.6.0 has 3 known vulnerabilities (3 rated high or critical); 1.9.0 fixes all of them. 1.9.0 has 1 known vulnerability of its own, so upgrade to 1.12.0, which has none.

npm (opens in a new tab) describes it as “quote and parse shell commands”

Known vulnerabilities
3
3 rated high or critical
Released
Apr 24, 2016
Latest is 1.12.0
Downloads last week
237
Under 1% of shell-quote downloads
Licence
MIT
Pulls in
4 packages
Resolved by deps.dev

What to upgrade to

1.12.0 is the closest release with no known vulnerabilities that we checked.

  • 1.9.0

    Fixes all 3 known vulnerabilities. Released Jun 25, 2026.

    1 known vulnerability, worst rated warning

  • 1.12.0Upgrade to this

    Newest 1.x release and the latest release. Released Oct 2, 2026.

    No known vulnerabilities

1.12.0 came out on Oct 2, 2026. A coding agent trained before then doesn’t know it exists, so it may suggest an older release. AI knowledge cutoff dates

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Findings

Every advisory for shell-quote 1.6.0

Known exploited first (CISA KEV), then by how likely they are to be exploited (FIRST EPSS), then by severity. Each id links to its OSV.dev record.

  1. CriticalCVE-2016-10541 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-qg8p-v9q4-gh34EPSS: top 18%

    Potential Command Injection in shell-quote

    Fixed in 1.6.1. Published Feb 18, 2019.

  2. CriticalCVE-2026-9277 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-w7jw-789q-3m8pEPSS: top 44%

    shell-quote quote() does not escape newlines in object .op values

    Fixed in 1.8.4. Published Jun 9, 2026.

  3. CriticalCVE-2026-13311 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-395f-4hp3-45gvEPSS: top 72%

    shell-quote: Quadratic-complexity Denial of Service in `parse()` (CWE-407)

    Fixed in 1.9.0. Published Jul 20, 2026.

Who is still on a vulnerable shell-quote

80% of last week’s 77.9M shell-quote downloads went to versions with known vulnerabilities.

From npm’s per-version download counts for the last 7 days, each version checked against OSV.dev. The versions checked cover over 99% of downloads.

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How this page is checked

StackPrism asks OSV.dev which advisories affect exactly shell-quote 1.6.0, merges duplicates filed under several ids, and ranks them with CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list and FIRST EPSS. Release dates and deprecation come from deps.dev and npm. No AI writes this page: every sentence comes from that data, refreshed every few hours.

Last checked against npm, OSV.dev, deps.dev, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS.