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Medium · 6.7 CVE-2026-76228 EUVD-2026-62469GHSA-mqp7-cg7m-4hhqGHSA-pfq2-hh62-7m96

Renovate before 42.68.5 Remote Code Execution via Gradle Wrapper

Published Aug 19, 2026 · Updated Oct 8, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

Renovate versions >=32.124.0 and before 42.68.5 (and Mend renovate-ce/renovate-ee before 13.3.0) contain a command injection vulnerability in Gradle Wrapper artifact handling. When Renovate processes Gradle Wrapper updates, it invokes a wrapper update command via a shell (e.g. /bin/sh -c ... ./gradlew :wrapper --gradle-distribution-url <value>). If an attacker supplies a malicious gradle-wrapper.properties whose distributionUrl contains shell command substitution syntax such as $(...), the shell evaluates it before Gradle parses the URL, resulting in arbitrary command execution in the Renovate runtime. Exploitation requires the attacker to introduce the malicious file into a repository that Renovate scans; the issue occurs even when allowScripts is disabled.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
renovatebot renovate 32.124.0 – < 42.68.5 42.68.5
mend renovate-ce < 13.3.0 13.3.0
mend renovate-ee-server < 13.3.0 13.3.0
mend renovate-ee-worker < 13.3.0 13.3.0

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm renovate >= 32.124.0, < 42.68.5 42.68.5 GHSA-pfq2-hh62-7m96

References