9.8

CVE-2024-58266: comex shlex Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output

CVSS: 9.8v3.1CriticalAnalyzed
AliasesSUSE-SU-2025:03077-1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58266DEBIAN-CVE-2024-58266
Published 27-07-2025Last modified 28-07-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-58266 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output vulnerability in comex shlex. EPSS estimates a 0.77% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 54.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
70/100
0100
High · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
9.8/10
010
Critical · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.77%
0%100%
Low · -0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 3 · Related 3
OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15433-1SUSE-SU-2025:20717-1SUSE-SU-2025:20858-1

Timeline

  1. 27-07-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 28-07-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The shlex crate before 1.2.1 for Rust allows unquoted and unescaped instances of the { and \xa0 characters, which may facilitate command injection.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.77%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

55%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

-0.01 pp

From 0.78% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
0.77%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Suse2 products
  • rav1e&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP6< 0.6.6-150600.3.6.1
  • rav1e&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP7< 0.6.6-150600.3.6.1
Comex1 product
Crates.Io1 product
  • shlex< 1.3.0 | ≥ 0.0.0-0, < 1.3.0
Debian1 product
  • rust-shlexAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 1.3.0-1
Opensuse1 product
  • rav1e&distro=openSUSE Leap 15.6< 0.6.6-150600.3.6.1
Ubuntu1 product
  • rust-shlexAll versions (No fix recorded)

6 vendors · 7 products

References

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