RenovateBot Renovate up to 40.32.x Hermit Manager command injection

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in RenovateBot Renovate up to 40.32.x. It has been classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Hermit Manager. Performing a manipulation results in command injection. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2026-76231. The attack is only possible with local access. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in RenovateBot Renovate up to 40.32.x. This affects an unknown code block of the component Hermit Manager. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a command injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-77. The product constructs all or part of a command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended command when it is sent to a downstream component. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Renovate versions from 32.135.0 before 40.33.0 contain a command injection vulnerability in the hermit manager where user-provided dependency names are appended to install and uninstall commands without proper sanitization. Attackers with repository write access can provide maliciously named hermit dependencies to execute arbitrary commands on the machine running Renovate.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-76231 since 08/19/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1202 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 40.33.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• RenovateBot

Name

• Renovate

Version

• 40.0
• 40.1
• 40.2
• 40.3
• 40.4
• 40.5
• 40.6
• 40.7
• 40.8
• 40.9
• 40.10
• 40.11
• 40.12
• 40.13
• 40.14
• 40.15
• 40.16
• 40.17
• 40.18
• 40.19
• 40.20
• 40.21
• 40.22
• 40.23
• 40.24
• 40.25
• 40.26
• 40.27
• 40.28
• 40.29
• 40.30
• 40.31
• 40.32

Website

• Product: https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/

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