CVE-2026-88885 PUBLISHED

Renovate before 44.14.7 Command Injection via depName

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 10.09.2026 Published: 10.09.2026 Updated: 10.09.2026

Renovate before 44.14.7 contains a command injection vulnerability in the gomod manager when processing unescaped depName parameters in import-path update commands with binarySource=docker mode. Attackers can inject shell metacharacters through malicious dependency names to execute arbitrary commands as the Renovate user during Go module major version updates with postUpdateOptions gomodUpdateImportPaths enabled.

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 7.3

Exploitability Metrics		Vulnerable System Impact Metrics		Subsequent System Impact Metrics
Attack Vector	Local	Confidentiality	High	Confidentiality	None
Attack Complexity	High	Integrity	High	Integrity	None
Attack Requirements	Present	Availability	High	Availability	None
Privileges Required	Low
User Interaction	None

CVSS 4.0

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 7

Attack Vector	Local	Scope	Unchanged
Attack Complexity	High	Confidentiality Impact	High
Privileges Required	Low	Integrity Impact	High
User Interaction	None	Availability Impact	High

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	renovatebot
Product	renovate
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to 44.14.7 (excl.) Version 44.14.7 is unaffected

Vendor	renovatebot
Product	renovate
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to 44.14.7 (excl.) Version 44.14.7 is unaffected

Vendor	renovatebot
Product	renovate
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to 44.14.7 (excl.) Version 44.14.7 is unaffected

Vendor	renovatebot
Product	renovate
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to 44.14.7 (excl.) Version 44.14.7 is unaffected

Vendor	renovatebot
Product	renovate
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to 15.4.0 (excl.) Version 15.4.0 is unaffected

Vendor	renovatebot
Product	renovate
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to 15.4.0 (excl.) Version 15.4.0 is unaffected

Vendor	renovatebot
Product	renovate
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to 15.4.0 (excl.) Version 15.4.0 is unaffected

Vendor	renovatebot
Product	renovate
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to 15.4.0 (excl.) Version 15.4.0 is unaffected

Vendor	renovatebot
Product	renovate
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to 15.4.0 (excl.) Version 15.4.0 is unaffected

Vendor	renovatebot
Product	renovate
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to 15.4.0 (excl.) Version 15.4.0 is unaffected

Vendor	renovatebot
Product	renovate
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to 15.4.0 (excl.) Version 15.4.0 is unaffected

Vendor	renovatebot
Product	renovate
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to 15.4.0 (excl.) Version 15.4.0 is unaffected

Vendor	renovatebot
Product	renovate
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to 15.4.0 (excl.) Version 15.4.0 is unaffected

Vendor	renovatebot
Product	renovate
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to 15.4.0 (excl.) Version 15.4.0 is unaffected

Vendor	renovatebot
Product	renovate
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to 15.4.0 (excl.) Version 15.4.0 is unaffected

Vendor	renovatebot
Product	renovate
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to 10.4.0 (excl.) Version 10.4.0 is unaffected

Vendor	renovatebot
Product	renovate
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to 10.4.0 (excl.) Version 10.4.0 is unaffected

Credits

iaohkut-from-NightWolf-Team reporter

References

Problem Types

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') CWE