pnpm: A tarball dependency's manifest `name` escapes node_modules → arbitrary file write/overwrite on install
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.5epss 0.4%
exploitation probability
0.4%top 65% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
pnpm is a package manager. Prior to 10.34.5 and 11.11.0, pnpm accepts a scoped path traversal in a tarball dependency's package.json manifest name because pnpm11/resolving/npm-resolver/src/pickPackage.ts rejects slash characters only for unscoped names. During pnpm install, the unvalidated name reaches raw path joins in pnpm11/installing/deps-resolver/src/resolvePeers.ts, pnpm11/installing/deps-resolver/src/index.ts, and pnpm11/deps/graph-builder/src/lockfileToDepGraph.ts, causing package extraction outside node_modules and allowing attacker-controlled files to overwrite arbitrary filesystem paths even when --ignore-scripts is used. The overwrite can replace shell startup files, Git hooks, or installed package code and lead to code execution. This issue is fixed in versions 10.34.5, and 11.11.0.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
pnpm · pnpmReferences
https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/commit/51300fd41c5e4c8f47635108e373cc3d1f324fa7https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/commit/78e29fe5583a1e5d69ea05e414eff310f78d5ed9https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/pull/12872https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/pull/12890https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/releases/tag/v10.34.5https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/releases/tag/v11.11.0https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/security/advisories/GHSA-vq4v-j7r6-jq4m