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high 7.8

CVE-2026-88889 json

Renovate before 44.14.7 Command Injection via distributionType

published 2mo ago modified last mo. also EUVD-2026-75439 , GHSA-f2v7-35mm-3hx7

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
7.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 64%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Renovate before 44.14.7 contains a command injection vulnerability in the Maven Wrapper manager that allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands by specifying a malicious distributionType parameter in maven-wrapper.properties. Attackers can inject shell commands through unescaped distributionType values to achieve remote code execution when Renovate processes Maven Wrapper updates in binarySource=docker mode.

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-2026-88889 updated cvss 8.8

renovate: Renovate: Remote code execution via command injection in Maven Wrapper manager

  • 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
2mo ago

Exploit prediction

1.05% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 64% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 8.5 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 4.0 8.5 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/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

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

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