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.
Published: 2025-08-19
Score: 9.8 Critical
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-25196 screenshot-desktop vulnerable to command Injection via `format` option
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-gjx4-2c7g-fm94 screenshot-desktop vulnerable to command Injection via `format` option
History

Tue, 19 Aug 2025 20:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Tue, 19 Aug 2025 17:45:00 +0000

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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.
Title Command Injection via `format` option in screenshot-desktop
Weaknesses CWE-77
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 9.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2025-08-19T20:03:52.409Z

Reserved: 2025-08-12T16:15:30.237Z

Link: CVE-2025-55294

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Updated: 2025-08-19T20:03:49.133Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2025-08-19T18:15:29.140

Modified: 2026-04-15T00:35:42.020

Link: CVE-2025-55294

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