CVE-2026-88885

Renovate before 44.14.7 Command Injection via depName

State: Published
Severity: 7.3 High
Published: Sep 10, 2026
Updated: Sep 29, 2026
Reserved: Sep 10, 2026

Description

Renovate before 44.14.7 contains a command injection vulnerability in the gomod manager when processing unescaped depName parameters in import-path update commands with binarySource=docker mode. Attackers can inject shell metacharacters through malicious dependency names to execute arbitrary commands as the Renovate user during Go module major version updates with postUpdateOptions gomodUpdateImportPaths enabled.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	7.3 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	VulnCheck
3.1	7.0 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	VulnCheck

Weaknesses

CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
renovaterenovatebot	before 44.14.7Affected 44.14.7Not 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

GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-mpf8-qxrw-gq3w)vendor-advisory
VulnCheck Advisory: Renovate before 44.14.7 Command Injection via depNamethird-party-advisory

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