CVE-2026-23889

medium Red Hat
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score
0.0%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 97% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Published: January 26, 2026 (108 days ago)
Last Modified: January 26, 2026
Vendor: Red Hat

Description

pnpm is a package manager. Prior to version 10.28.1, a path traversal vulnerability in pnpm's tarball extraction allows malicious packages to write files outside the package directory on Windows. The path normalization only checks for `./` but not `.\`. On Windows, backslashes are directory separators, enabling path traversal. This vulnerability is Windows-only. This issue impacts Windows pnpm users and Windows CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions Windows runners, Azure DevOps). It can lead to overwriting `.npmrc`, build configs, or other files. Version 10.28.1 contains a patch.

CWE

CWE-22

Affected Products

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack

References

🔗 bugzilla.redhat.com 🔗 www.cve.org 🔗 nvd.nist.gov 🔗 github.com 🔗 github.com