vercel turborepo/codemod/workspaces up to 2.9.13 untrusted search path

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in vercel turborepo, codemod and workspaces up to 2.9.13. This affects an unknown part. Such manipulation leads to untrusted search path. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2026-45772. The attack can only be performed from a local environment. No exploit is available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in vercel turborepo, codemod and workspaces up to 2.9.13 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a untrusted search path vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-426. The product searches for critical resources using an externally-supplied search path that can point to resources that are not under the product's direct control. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Turborepo is a high-performance build system for JavaScript and TypeScript codebases. From 1.1.0 to before 2.9.14, Turborepo can be vulnerable to arbitrary code execution when run in untrusted repositories that contain malicious Yarn configuration. In affected versions, package manager detection executed yarn --version from the project directory, which could cause Yarn to load and execute a project-controlled yarnPath from .yarnrc.yml. An attacker who controls repository contents could cause code execution when a user or CI system runs affected turbo, @turbo/codemod, or @turbo/workspace conversion commands. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.9.14.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-45772 since 05/13/2026. The exploitation is known to be difficult. Local access is required to approach this attack. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1574 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 2.9.14 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• vercel

Name

• codemod
• turborepo
• workspaces

Version

• 2.9.0
• 2.9.1
• 2.9.2
• 2.9.3
• 2.9.4
• 2.9.5
• 2.9.6
• 2.9.7
• 2.9.8
• 2.9.9
• 2.9.10
• 2.9.11
• 2.9.12
• 2.9.13

Website

• Product: https://github.com/vercel/turborepo/

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