CVE-2026-75926: critical vulnerability in gohugoio hugo
Hugo 0.162.0 to 0.164.x - Node Permission Model Bypass via Default TailwindCSS Child-Process Grant
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28Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 9.3epss 0.3%
Hugo 0.161.0 placed the Node asset pipelines behind the Node.js permission model so that code running through PostCSS, Babel, or TailwindCSS could not reach the file system outside the project directory. Hugo 0.162.0 added tailwindcss to the AllowChildProcess default in config/security/securityConfig.go, which makes nodePermissionArgs in common/hexec/exec.go append --allow-child-process whenever the tool being launched is named tailwindcss. TailwindCSS loads the site's tailwind.config.js through require at startup, so top-level code in that file executes inside the permitted Node process and can call child_process to spawn a shell. The spawned process is not a Node process and inherits none of the permission flags, so it runs with the full privileges of the account performing the build. Building a site whose theme, module, or starter template supplies the Tailwind configuration therefore yields arbitrary command execution rather than the confined file access the permission model was introduced to enforce. Hugo 0.165.0 removes tailwindcss from the default security.exec.allow list, so the tool is no longer launched under the default configuration.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
Affected products
gohugoio · hugoRelated CVEs — gohugoio hugo
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2020-26284HIGHHugo can execute a binary from the current directory on WindowsEPSS 1.5%CVE-2024-55601MEDIUMHugo does not escape some attributes in internal templatesEPSS 0.6%CVE-2026-89259CRITICALHugo before v0.165.0 Insufficient Permission Restriction via TailwindCSSEPSS 0.6%CVE-2024-32875MEDIUMHugo doesn't escape markdown title in internal render hooksEPSS 0.5%CVE-2026-58403MEDIUMHugo symlink confinement bypass in os.ReadFileEPSS 0.5%CVE-2026-89258CRITICALHugo before v0.165.0 Symlink Confinement Bypass via resources.GetEPSS 0.5%
References
https://github.com/gohugoio/hugohttps://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/blob/v0.164.0/common/hexec/exec.go#L292-L295https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/blob/v0.164.0/config/security/securityConfig.go#L72-L79https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/8a55df7af2e6da31297245cc54fa2e3b521d93e8https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/15178https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/hugo-to-x-node-permission-model-bypass-via-default-tailwindcss-child-process-grant