CVE-2026-88883

Renovate before 44.14.4 TLS Private Key Log Sanitisation

State
Published
Severity
8.3 High
Published
Sep 10, 2026
Updated
Sep 29, 2026
Reserved
Sep 10, 2026

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Description

Renovate is an automated dependency update tool. In versions before 44.14.4 (and Mend Renovate CE/EE images before 15.4.0 and the mend-renovate-enterprise-edition Helm chart before 10.4.0), log sanitisation for TLS private keys used for Mutual TLS was incomplete. While the value of hostRules[].httpsPrivateKey was redacted in the field itself, the same private key value was not redacted if it also appeared elsewhere — for example in another configuration option or in a log message under a key other than httpsPrivateKey — causing the full private key to be written to Renovate's logs in cleartext. This affects deployments that configure Mutual TLS through hostRules[].httpsPrivateKey without passing the value through the documented `secrets` configuration. Anyone able to read the resulting logs can recover the private key. The issue is fixed in Renovate 44.14.4, which redacts any value supplied as hostRules[].httpsPrivateKey wherever it appears in the logs; as a workaround, supply the key via the `secrets` configuration.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.08.3 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:NVulnCheck
3.17.7 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:NVulnCheck

Weaknesses

  • CWE-532 Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Affected Products

ProductVersions
renovaterenovatebot
  • before 44.14.4Affected
  • 44.14.4Not affected
renovate-cemend
  • before 15.4.0Affected
  • 15.4.0Not affected
renovate-ee-servermend
  • before 15.4.0Affected
  • 15.4.0Not affected
renovate-ee-workermend
  • before 15.4.0Affected
  • 15.4.0Not affected
mend-renovate-cemend
  • before 15.4.0Affected
  • 15.4.0Not affected
mend-renovate-enterprise-editionmend
  • before 10.4.0Affected
  • 10.4.0Not affected

References

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