Vulnerability · Published Sep 10, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

CVE-2026-88885Renovate before 44.14.7 Command Injection via depName

High 7.0

In plain English

A high-severity OS command injection in mend-renovate-ce from mend. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.9% (higher than 59% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.0High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.9%top 40.5% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
renovatebot	renovate	0 – before 44.14.7
mend	renovate-ce	0 – before 15.4.0
mend	renovate-ee-server	0 – before 15.4.0
mend	renovate-ee-worker	0 – before 15.4.0
mend	mend-renovate-ce	0 – before 15.4.0
mend	mend-renovate-enterprise-edition	0 – before 10.4.0

Weakness: CWE-78 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-mpf8-qxrw-gq3w) vendor-advisory
VulnCheck Advisory: Renovate before 44.14.7 Command Injection via depName third-party-advisory