CVE-2026-88889: Renovate before 44.14.7 Command Injection via distributionType

Description

Renovate before 44.14.7 contains a command injection vulnerability in the Maven Wrapper manager that allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands by specifying a malicious distributionType parameter in maven-wrapper.properties. Attackers can inject shell commands through unescaped distributionType values to achieve remote code execution when Renovate processes Maven Wrapper updates in binarySource=docker mode.

CVSS vector

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

Attack vector

Local

Complexity

Low

Privileges

Low

User interaction

None

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Scope

Unchanged

Exploitation

Is it being used?

Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.0% · higher than 64% 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