CVSS 3.1
6.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NCVE-2026-23889
Medium (6.5) in pnpm pnpm. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in pnpm 10.28.1.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 41% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-22
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- pnpm:pnpm
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-6x96-7vc8-cm3p | npm | pnpm | <10.28.1 | 10.28.1 |