CVE-2026-88887

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

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Description

Renovate is a dependency update automation tool. When listing tags/digests for a container image, Renovate follows pagination links supplied by the remote registry in the HTTP Link header and attaches the registry credentials to the follow-up request without verifying that the pagination URL has the same origin as the original registry. A malicious or compromised container registry can therefore specify a Link header pointing to an attacker-controlled host and receive the credentials Renovate uses for that registry. Exploitation requires that the target has container (Docker) dependencies and is already interacting with the malicious or compromised registry. This is fixed in Renovate 44.11.2 (npm and renovate/renovate images), Mend Renovate CE/EE 15.4.0 and the mend-renovate-enterprise-edition Helm chart 10.4.0; the same-origin check can be disabled with RENOVATE_X_DOCKER_PAGINATION_ALLOW_CROSS_ORIGIN.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

  • CWE-601 URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
renovaterenovatebot
  • before 44.11.2Affected
  • 44.11.2Not 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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