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High · 7.8 CVE-2025-58374 EUVD-2025-27127

Roo Code: Auto-approve allows npm install execution of malicious postinstall scripts

Published Sep 6, 2025 · Updated Sep 8, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Roo Code is an AI-powered autonomous coding agent that lives in users' editors. Versions 3.25.23 and below contain a default list of allowed commands that do not need manual approval if auto-approve is enabled, and npm install is included in that list. Because npm install executes lifecycle scripts, if a repository’s package.json file contains a malicious postinstall script, it would be executed automatically without user approval. This means that enabling auto-approved commands and opening a malicious repo could result in arbitrary code execution. This is fixed in version 3.26.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
RooCodeInc Roo-Code < 3.26.0 —

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