ALPINE-CVE-2026-23889

Source
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2026-23889
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2026-23889.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2026-23889
Upstream
Published
2026-01-26T22:15:56Z
Modified
2026-11-03T06:33:01Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.23 / pnpm

Package

Name
pnpm
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/pnpm?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
10.33.4-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2026-23889.json"