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Details of issue NIXPKGS-2026-2460

NIXPKGS-2026-2460
published 8 hours ago
pnpm: A tarball dependency's manifest `name` escapes node_modules → arbitrary file write/overwrite on install
Permalink CVE-2026-82393
7.5 HIGH
  • CVSS version (CVSS): 3.1
  • Attack Vector (AV): Network (N)
  • Attack Complexity (AC): High (H)
  • Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
  • User Interaction (UI): Required (R)
  • Scope (S): Unchanged (U)
  • Confidentiality (C): High (H)
  • Integrity (I): High (H)
  • Availability (A): High (H)
  • Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Network (N)
  • Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): High (H)
  • Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
  • Modified User Interaction (MUI): Required (R)
  • Modified Confidentiality (MC): High (H)
  • Modified Scope (MS): Unchanged (U)
  • Modified Integrity (MI): High (H)
  • Modified Availability (MA): High (H)
updated 8 hours ago by @LeSuisse Activity log
  • Created suggestion
  • @LeSuisse ignored
    5 packages
    • pnpm_8
    • pnpmBuildHook
    • pnpmConfigHook
    • pnpm-fixup-state-db
    • pnpm-shell-completion
  • @LeSuisse accepted
  • @LeSuisse published on GitHub
pnpm: A tarball dependency's manifest `name` escapes node_modules → arbitrary file write/overwrite on install

pnpm is a package manager. Prior to 10.34.5 and 11.11.0, pnpm accepts a scoped path traversal in a tarball dependency's package.json manifest name because pnpm11/resolving/npm-resolver/src/pickPackage.ts rejects slash characters only for unscoped names. During pnpm install, the unvalidated name reaches raw path joins in pnpm11/installing/deps-resolver/src/resolvePeers.ts, pnpm11/installing/deps-resolver/src/index.ts, and pnpm11/deps/graph-builder/src/lockfileToDepGraph.ts, causing package extraction outside node_modules and allowing attacker-controlled files to overwrite arbitrary filesystem paths even when --ignore-scripts is used. The overwrite can replace shell startup files, Git hooks, or installed package code and lead to code execution. This issue is fixed in versions 10.34.5, and 11.11.0.

Affected products

pnpm
  • ==>= 11.0.0, < 11.11.0
  • ==< 10.34.5

Matching in nixpkgs

pkgs.pnpm

Fast, disk space efficient package manager for JavaScript

Ignored packages (5)

pkgs.pnpmBuildHook

None

  • nixos-unstable -
    • nixpkgs-unstable
    • nixos-unstable-small
  • nixos-26.05 -
    • nixos-26.05-small
    • nixpkgs-26.05-darwin

pkgs.pnpmConfigHook

None

  • nixos-unstable -
    • nixpkgs-unstable
    • nixos-unstable-small
  • nixos-26.05 -
    • nixos-26.05-small
    • nixpkgs-26.05-darwin

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