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high 7.1

CVE-2026-101044 json

pacquet before 12.0.0-alpha.5 Path Traversal via lockfile alias

published last mo. modified last mo. also EUVD-2026-87975

cvss
7.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 17%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

pacquet, the Rust package-manager component shipped in the pnpm npm package versions >=12.0.0-alpha.0 and <12.0.0-alpha.5, does not validate dependency alias/name paths taken from a lockfile before using them in install-time filesystem joins. When a user installs a project with an attacker-supplied lockfile using --trust-lockfile or a frozen lockfile, alias entries containing path traversal segments (for example '../../escaped-link') are used when creating dependency and package links, bin destinations, hoisted entries, and virtual-store slots, allowing symlinks and directories to be created outside the intended project and node_modules boundary. Version 12.0.0-alpha.5 validates dependency names and every virtual-store slot path with a shared safe-join containment helper before any filesystem materialization, rejecting traversal, absolute, platform-specific, and reserved names with ERR_PNPM_INVALID_DEPENDENCY_NAME.

Patch / fix

  • pnpm pnpm 12.0.0-alpha.5

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-101044 updated cvss 7.1

pnpm: pnpm: Arbitrary file creation outside project directory via lockfile path traversal

  • Red Hat AMQ Broker 7 amq-broker-maven-repository.zip 7.14.1.CR3 Red Hat Build of Keycloak rhbk-quarkus-dist.zip 26.6.7.CR1, keycloak-operator.redhat-00001.zip 26.6.6, keycloak-operator.redhat-00003.zip 26.6.7
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat AMQ Broker 7 amq-broker-bin.zip 7.14.1.CR3
    not affected: vulnerable code not present
  • Red Hat Hardened Images jaeger 2.20.0-0.11.hum1, prometheus3.13 3.13.3-0.1.hum1 Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 jboss-eap-runtime-maven-repository.zip 8.1.2, jboss-eap.1-runtime-maven-repository.zip 8.1.0 Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack jboss-eap-runtime-maven-repository.zip 8.1.2, jboss-eap.1-runtime-maven-repository.zip 8.1.0
    not affected: component not present
  • Red Hat OpenShift GitOps openshift-gitops-1/argocd-rhel9, openshift-gitops-1/console-plugin-rhel9, openshift-gitops-1/console-plugin-4-18-rhel9
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
last mo.

Exploit prediction

0.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 17% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 7.1 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
CNA 4.0 7.1 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected products

  • pnpm pnpm

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

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