CVE-2026-76231: high-severity vulnerability in renovatebot renovate
Renovate 32.135.0 before 40.33.0 Command Injection via hermit
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 8.4epss 1.0%
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.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
renovatebot · renovateRelated CVEs — renovatebot renovate
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2026-88889HIGHRenovate before 44.14.7 Command Injection via distributionTypeEPSS 1.0%CVE-2026-76232HIGHRenovate 31.51.0 before 40.33.0 Command Injection via helmv3EPSS 1.0%CVE-2026-76230HIGHRenovate 35.63.0 before 40.33.0 Command Injection via npmEPSS 1.0%CVE-2026-76233HIGHRenovate 39.53.0 before 40.33.0 Command Injection via gleam managerEPSS 1.0%CVE-2026-76229HIGHRenovate 39.218.0 before 40.33.0 Arbitrary Command Injection via kustomizeEPSS 1.0%CVE-2026-76228HIGHRenovate before 42.68.5 Remote Code Execution via Gradle WrapperEPSS 1.0%
References
https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/commit/41e8b99f86a6e2a56f80f7aa1a08a59d76f2358chttps://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/commit/a70a6a376d31148e80be5a5c885ac33ff5ddb30chttps://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/commit/b696abb3c2741508fbb4029f39153140a3722e1ehttps://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/commit/eaec10d7c8afadbdd783ac47bd2adbfab444d6dfhttps://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/security/advisories/GHSA-36j9-mx87-2cffhttps://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/renovate-before-command-injection-via-hermit