CVE-2025-55294

critical · 9.8

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.

9.8

CVSS

1.4%

EPSS (exploit prob.)

72nd

EPSS percentile

2025-08-19

Published

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

Weaknesses

CWE-77

References

https://github.com/bencevans/screenshot-desktop/commit/59c87b0c175eec76090e6ccde313f4fc5d569b78
https://github.com/bencevans/screenshot-desktop/security/advisories/GHSA-gjx4-2c7g-fm94

Query this programmatically:

curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2025-55294