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high 7.0

CVE-2026-88885 json

Renovate before 44.14.7 Command Injection via depName

published 2mo ago modified last mo. also EUVD-2026-75435 , GHSA-mpf8-qxrw-gq3w

Unreviewed: the maintainers' own advisory

Published by the maintainers on their GitHub repository renovatebot/renovate. GitHub has not reviewed it into the GitHub Advisory Database, so the affected packages and versions are the maintainers' word. Read the full advisory on GitHub.

cvss
7.0
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 59%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Renovate before 44.14.7 contains a command injection vulnerability in the gomod manager when processing unescaped depName parameters in import-path update commands with binarySource=docker mode. Attackers can inject shell metacharacters through malicious dependency names to execute arbitrary commands as the Renovate user during Go module major version updates with postUpdateOptions gomodUpdateImportPaths enabled.

Patch / fix

  • npm renovate 44.14.7
  • renovatebot renovate 44.14.7
  • mend renovate-ce 15.4.0
  • mend renovate-ee-server 15.4.0
  • mend renovate-ee-worker 15.4.0
  • mend mend-renovate-ce 15.4.0
  • mend mend-renovate-enterprise-edition 10.4.0

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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-2026-88885 updated cvss 9.8

renovate: Renovate: Arbitrary code execution via command injection in dependency names

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
last mo.

Exploit prediction

0.89% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 59% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 7.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 3.1 7.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 4.0 7.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/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 packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm renovate
<44.14.7
44.14.7

Affected products

  • renovatebot renovate
  • mend renovate-ce
  • mend renovate-ee-server
  • mend renovate-ee-worker
  • mend mend-renovate-ce
  • mend mend-renovate-enterprise-edition

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command

References

Sources

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The maintainers of renovatebot/renovate published their own advisory on GitHub. Reviewed sources take precedence over it.