CVE-2026-76231

MEDIUM 6.7

Renovate 32.135.0 before 40.33.0 Command Injection via hermit

CVSS Score

6.7

EPSS Score

0.0%

EPSS Percentile

0th

Renovate versions from 32.135.0 before 40.33.0 contain a command injection vulnerability in the hermit manager where user-provided dependency names are appended to install and uninstall commands without proper sanitization. Attackers with repository write access can provide maliciously named hermit dependencies to execute arbitrary commands on the machine running Renovate.

CWE	CWE-77
Vendor	renovatebot
Product	renovate
Published	Aug 19, 2026

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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Affected Versions

renovatebot / renovate

32.135.0 < 40.33.0

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗

github.com: https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/security/advisories/GHSA-36j9-mx87-2cff github.com: https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/commit/b696abb3c2741508fbb4029f39153140a3722e1e github.com: https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/commit/eaec10d7c8afadbdd783ac47bd2adbfab444d6df github.com: https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/commit/41e8b99f86a6e2a56f80f7aa1a08a59d76f2358c github.com: https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/commit/a70a6a376d31148e80be5a5c885ac33ff5ddb30c vulncheck.com: https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/renovate-before-command-injection-via-hermit

Credits

🔍 astellingwerf