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Medium · 5.8 CVE-2024-53866 EUVD-2024-3510GHSA-vm32-9rqf-rh3r

pnpm vulnerable to no-script global cache poisoning via overrides / `ignore-scripts` evasion

Published Dec 10, 2024 · Updated Dec 31, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

The package manager pnpm prior to version 9.15.0 seems to mishandle overrides and global cache: Overrides from one workspace leak into npm metadata saved in global cache; npm metadata from global cache affects other workspaces; and installs by default don't revalidate the data (including on first lockfile generation). This can make workspace A (even running with `ignore-scripts=true`) posion global cache and execute scripts in workspace B. Users generally expect `ignore-scripts` to be sufficient to prevent immediate code execution on install (e.g. when the tree is just repacked/bundled without executing it). Here, that expectation is broken. Global state integrity is lost via operations that one would expect to be secure, enabling subsequently running arbitrary code execution on installs. Version 9.15.0 fixes the issue. As a work-around, use separate cache and store dirs in each workspace.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
pnpm pnpm < 9.15.0 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling pnpm 9.15.0-r0 —
Wolfi rolling pnpm-stage0 No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm pnpm < 9.15.0 9.15.0 GHSA-vm32-9rqf-rh3r

References