Command Injection via `format` option in screenshot-desktop_CVE-2025-55294

9.8 / 10

CRITICAL

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

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.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-55294

Source GitHub_M

Published Aug 19, 2025 at 17:34

Affected Product

Vendor bencevans

Product screenshot-desktop

Version < 1.15.2

Affected Versions bencevans screenshot-desktop < 1.15.2

CWE Classification

CWE-77

References

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