High severity · published Sep 10, 2026
CVE-2026-88882
Renovate before 44.11.2 Credential Exfiltration via Link Header
8.6
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Renovate is a dependency update automation tool. In versions before 44.11.2 (and Mend Renovate CE/EE images and charts before 15.4.0, and mend-renovate-enterprise-edition helm chart before 10.4.0), when listing new package versions from a NuGet registry Renovate follows pagination URLs supplied by the registry in the HTTP `Link` header without verifying that the target has the same origin as the configured registry. Registry credentials are attached to the request for the 'next' page, so a malicious or compromised NuGet registry can return a `Link` header pointing at an attacker-controlled server and cause Renovate to send the registry credentials to that server. Exploitation requires the remote registry to be malicious or compromised; such a registry would normally already have received the credentials on the initial request, so the issue primarily allows the credentials to be delivered to an additional, attacker-chosen host. The fix restricts pagination to the same origin; the previous behaviour can be re-enabled with the RENOVATE_X_NUGET_PAGINATION_ALLOW_CROSS_ORIGIN option.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 35% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
ME
mend-renovate-ce · mend
before 15.4.0 · source: vendor
ME
mend-renovate-enterprise-edition · mend
before 10.4.0 · source: vendor
RE
renovate · renovatebot
before 44.11.2 · source: vendor
RE
renovate-ce · mend
before 15.4.0 · source: vendor
RE
renovate-ee-server · mend
before 15.4.0 · source: vendor
RE
renovate-ee-worker · mend
before 15.4.0 · source: vendor
Affected product
ME
mend-renovate-ce
mend
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