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Fencer Vulns
high 7.4

CVE-2026-101043 json

pnpm 11.0.0 before 11.11.0 Environment Variable Exfiltration via Proxy Settings

published 2026-09-01 2 mo ago modified 2026-09-30 39 d ago also EUVD-2026-87974 , GHSA-vx52-2968-3vc6

cvss
7.4
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 21%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

pnpm versions 11.0.0 before 11.11.0 and 10.7.0 before 10.34.5 expand ${VAR} environment-variable placeholders in the httpProxy, httpsProxy, and noProxy settings read from a project's pnpm-workspace.yaml. Because the manifest is repository-controlled and the proxy keys were omitted from the request-destination key set that otherwise suppresses placeholder expansion for untrusted manifests (as already done for registry, pnprServer, registries and namedRegistries), an attacker who controls a repository's pnpm-workspace.yaml can cause a victim who clones the repository and runs a pnpm command (e.g. pnpm install) to expand environment secrets such as NPM_TOKEN or GITHUB_TOKEN into a proxy hostname or userinfo and route install traffic — and the corresponding DNS lookups — through an attacker-controlled host. The exfiltration occurs during configuration loading, before any lifecycle script executes. Fixed in pnpm 11.11.0 and 10.34.5.

Patch / fix

  • npm pnpm 10.34.5, 11.11.0
  • pnpm pnpm 10.34.5, 11.11.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-101043 updated cvss 7.4

pnpm: pnpm: Information disclosure via environment variable expansion in proxy settings

  • Red Hat AMQ Broker 7 amq-broker-maven-repository.zip 7.14.1.CR3 Red Hat Build of Keycloak rhbk-quarkus-dist.zip 26.6.7.CR1, keycloak-operator.redhat-00001.zip 26.6.6, keycloak-operator.redhat-00003.zip 26.6.7
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat AMQ Broker 7 amq-broker-bin.zip 7.14.1.CR3
    not affected: vulnerable code not present
  • Red Hat Hardened Images jaeger 2.20.0-0.11.hum1, prometheus3.13 3.13.3-0.1.hum1 Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 jboss-eap-runtime-maven-repository.zip 8.1.2, jboss-eap.1-runtime-maven-repository.zip 8.1.0 Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack jboss-eap-runtime-maven-repository.zip 8.1.2, jboss-eap.1-runtime-maven-repository.zip 8.1.0
    not affected: component not present
  • Red Hat OpenShift GitOps openshift-gitops-1/argocd-rhel9, openshift-gitops-1/console-plugin-rhel9, openshift-gitops-1/console-plugin-4-18-rhel9
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
39 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 21% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/security/advisories/GHSA-vx52-2968-3vc6 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 8.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 3.1 7.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.1 7.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CNA 4.0 8.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm pnpm
>=11.0.0, <11.11.0
>=10.7.0, <10.34.5
11.11.0
10.34.5

Affected products

  • pnpm pnpm

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-201 Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data
  • CWE-319 Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information
  • CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.