CVE-2026-88885highCWE-78

CVE-2026-88885: high-severity vulnerability in renovatebot renovate

Renovate before 44.14.7 Command Injection via depName

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21Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 7.3epss 0.9%
Renovate before 44.14.7 contains a command injection vulnerability in the gomod manager when processing unescaped depName parameters in import-path update commands with binarySource=docker mode. Attackers can inject shell metacharacters through malicious dependency names to execute arbitrary commands as the Renovate user during Go module major version updates with postUpdateOptions gomodUpdateImportPaths enabled.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
mend · mend-renovate-cemend · mend-renovate-enterprise-editionmend · renovate-cemend · renovate-ee-servermend · renovate-ee-workerrenovatebot · renovate
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