CVE-2026-88886

Renovate before 44.14.7 Command Injection via gradle-wrapper

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

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Description

Renovate is a dependency update automation tool. In versions before 44.14.7 (and in Mend Renovate CE/EE distributions before 15.4.0, and the mend-renovate-enterprise-edition Helm chart before 10.4.0), the manager/gradle-wrapper module does not escape the distributionUrl value read from a repository's gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties file before invoking the Gradle Wrapper CLI. In self-hosted deployments configured with binarySource=docker and allowedUnsafeExecutions=['gradleWrapper', ...], a repository that supplies a crafted distributionUrl (for example, appending a shell metacharacter and command) can cause arbitrary commands to be executed as the Renovate user when Renovate processes a Gradle Wrapper update. The issue is fixed in Renovate 44.14.7; as a workaround, remove 'gradleWrapper' from allowedUnsafeExecutions.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

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

Affected Products

ProductVersions
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

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