CVE-2026-88882
Renovate before 44.11.2 Credential Exfiltration via Link Header
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 9.2 Critical
- Published
- Sep 10, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 29, 2026
- Reserved
- Sep 10, 2026
Description
Renovate is a dependency update automation tool. In versions before 44.11.2 (and Mend Renovate CE/EE images and charts before 15.4.0, and mend-renovate-enterprise-edition helm chart before 10.4.0), when listing new package versions from a NuGet registry Renovate follows pagination URLs supplied by the registry in the HTTP `Link` header without verifying that the target has the same origin as the configured registry. Registry credentials are attached to the request for the 'next' page, so a malicious or compromised NuGet registry can return a `Link` header pointing at an attacker-controlled server and cause Renovate to send the registry credentials to that server. Exploitation requires the remote registry to be malicious or compromised; such a registry would normally already have received the credentials on the initial request, so the issue primarily allows the credentials to be delivered to an additional, attacker-chosen host. The fix restricts pagination to the same origin; the previous behaviour can be re-enabled with the RENOVATE_X_NUGET_PAGINATION_ALLOW_CROSS_ORIGIN option.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 9.2 Critical | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N | VulnCheck |
| 3.1 | 8.6 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N | VulnCheck |
Weaknesses
- CWE-601 URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
renovaterenovatebot |
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renovate-cemend |
|
renovate-ee-servermend |
|
renovate-ee-workermend |
|
mend-renovate-cemend |
|
mend-renovate-enterprise-editionmend |
|
References
- GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-rh7w-ccch-gh49)vendor-advisory
- VulnCheck Advisory: Renovate before 44.11.2 Credential Exfiltration via Link Headerthird-party-advisory
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