CVE-2026-88889

Renovate before 44.14.7 Command Injection via distributionType

State: Published
Severity: 8.5 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 Maven Wrapper manager that allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands by specifying a malicious distributionType parameter in maven-wrapper.properties. Attackers can inject shell commands through unescaped distributionType values to achieve remote code execution when Renovate processes Maven Wrapper updates in binarySource=docker mode.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	8.5 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	VulnCheck
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/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-f2v7-35mm-3hx7)vendor-advisory
VulnCheck Advisory: Renovate before 44.14.7 Command Injection via distributionTypethird-party-advisory

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