CVE-2026-76231

Renovate 32.135.0 before 40.33.0 Command Injection via hermit

State
Published
Severity
8.4 High
Published
Aug 19, 2026
Updated
Aug 20, 2026
Reserved
Aug 19, 2026

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Description

Renovate versions from 32.135.0 before 40.33.0 contain a command injection vulnerability in the hermit manager where user-provided dependency names are appended to install and uninstall commands without proper sanitization. Attackers with repository write access can provide maliciously named hermit dependencies to execute arbitrary commands on the machine running Renovate.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.08.4 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NVulnCheck
3.16.7 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HVulnCheck

Weaknesses

  • CWE-77 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
renovaterenovatebot
  • 32.135.0 to before 40.33.0Affected
  • 40.33.0Not affected

References

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