bencevans screenshot-desktop up to 1.15.1 screenshot command injection

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A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in bencevans screenshot-desktop up to 1.15.1. Impacted is the function Screenshot. Such manipulation leads to command injection. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2025-55294. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in bencevans screenshot-desktop up to 1.15.1 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is the function screenshot. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a command injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-77. The product constructs all or part of a command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended command when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-55294 since 08/12/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1202 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 1.15.2 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 59c87b0c175eec76090e6ccde313f4fc5d569b78 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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• bencevans

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• screenshot-desktop

Version

• 1.15.0
• 1.15.1

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/bencevans/screenshot-desktop/

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