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Medium · 6.7 CVE-2026-76231 EUVD-2026-62472GHSA-36j9-mx87-2cffGHSA-jjmm-46cq-987q

Renovate 32.135.0 before 40.33.0 Command Injection via hermit

Published Aug 19, 2026 · Updated Aug 20, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

Renovate versions from 32.135.0 before 40.33.0 contain a command injection vulnerability in the hermit manager where user-provided dependency names are appended to install and uninstall commands without proper sanitization. Attackers with repository write access can provide maliciously named hermit dependencies to execute arbitrary commands on the machine running Renovate.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
renovatebot renovate 32.135.0 – < 40.33.0 40.33.0

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm renovate >= 32.135.0, < 40.33.0 40.33.0 GHSA-36j9-mx87-2cff

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