High severity · published Sep 10, 2026
CVE-2026-88888
Renovate before 44.14.7 Command Injection via Mix organization
7.0
CVSS
0.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Renovate before 44.14.7 contains a command injection vulnerability in the Mix manager when processing private dependencies with unescaped organization parameters. Attackers can inject shell metacharacters through malicious package names to execute arbitrary commands as the Renovate user in binarySource=docker mode.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
High
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.9% · higher than 59% 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 44.14.7 · 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
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-88888
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-88888
vendor-advisory
https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/security/advisories/GHSA-v85g-rq5w-c46q
third-party-advisory
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/renovate-before-44.14.7-command-injection-via-mix-organization
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