CVE-2026-88889

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 4.0

8.5CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS 3.1

7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 63% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-78

Published

2026-09-10

Modified

2026-09-29

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

• https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/security/advisories/GHSA-f2v7-35mm-3hx7
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/renovate-before-44.14.7-command-injection-via-distributiontype

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