Description
Renovate before 44.60.1 contains an allowlist bypass vulnerability that allows repositories to set restricted environment variables by placing env inside a shared preset. Attackers controlling an externally sourced preset can override variables like PATH, LD_PRELOAD, NODE_OPTIONS, or GIT_SSL_CAINFO in child processes on self-hosted instances.
References3
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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8.5
HIGH
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS 4.0
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9.0
CRITICAL
Score source: CNA
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 20 · as of 11 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-863
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