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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2022-26183 json

Untrusted Search Path in PNPM

published 2022-03-21 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-9m87-6fj3-c5xh , EUVD-2022-1397

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.6%
EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 75%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

PNPM v6.15.1 and below was discovered to contain an untrusted search path which causes the application to behave in unexpected ways when users execute PNPM commands in a directory containing malicious content. This vulnerability occurs when the application is ran on Windows OS.

Patch / fix

  • npm pnpm 6.15.1
  • pnpm pnpm 6.15.1

Exploit prediction

1.59% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 75% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • sonarsource.com https://www.sonarsource.com/blog/securing-developer-tools-package-managers/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm pnpm
<6.15.1
6.15.1

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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