CVE-2026-42089

yeoman-environment Vulnerable to Arbitrary Package Installation without User Confirmation

State
Published
Severity
8.6 High
Published
Jun 16, 2026
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
Reserved
Apr 23, 2026

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Description

Yeoman Environment provides an API to discover, create, and run generators, and to configure where and how a generator is resolved. Versions 2.9.0 through 6.0.0 install missing local generator packages from caller-supplied package names without user confirmation. In downstream consumers that pass attacker-controlled project configuration into this path, this can result in arbitrary package installation and code execution during CLI bootstrap. The vulnerable method is installLocalGenerators(), which calls repository.install() directly without prompting the user. This issue has been fixed in version 6.0.0.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.6 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-829 Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere

Affected Products

ProductVersions
environmentyeoman
  • >= 2.9.0, < 6.0.1Affected

References

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