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Medium · 6.7 CVE-2026-24056 EUVD-2026-4658GHSA-m733-5w8f-5ggw

pnpm has symlink traversal in file:/git dependencies

Published Jan 26, 2026 · Updated Jan 27, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

pnpm is a package manager. Prior to version 10.28.2, when pnpm installs a `file:` (directory) or `git:` dependency, it follows symlinks and reads their target contents without constraining them to the package root. A malicious package containing a symlink to an absolute path (e.g., `/etc/passwd`, `~/.ssh/id_rsa`) causes pnpm to copy that file's contents into `node_modules`, leaking local data. The vulnerability only affects `file:` and `git:` dependencies. Registry packages (npm) have symlinks stripped during publish and are NOT affected. The issue impacts developers installing local/file dependencies andCI/CD pipelines installing git dependencies. It can lead to credential theft via symlinks to `~/.aws/credentials`, `~/.npmrc`, `~/.ssh/id_rsa`. Version 10.28.2 contains a patch.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
pnpm pnpm < 10.28.2 —

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.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.23 pnpm 10.33.4-r0 —

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling pnpm-stage0 No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm pnpm < 10.28.2 10.28.2 GHSA-m733-5w8f-5ggw

References