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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2026-50016 json

pnpm: Transitive dependency alias path traversal allows project path override via symlink replacement

published 2026-06-25 4 mo ago modified 2026-06-29 4 mo ago also EUVD-2026-39494 , GHSA-hwx4-2j3j-g496

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 44%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

pnpm is a package manager. Prior to 10.34.0 and 11.4.0, pnpm allows a transitive dependency alias from registry package metadata to contain path traversal segments. During install, pnpm later uses that alias as a filesystem path when linking dependency nodes. As a result, a registry package can cause `pnpm install --ignore-scripts` to replace paths in the current project with symlinks to attacker-controlled dependency package directories. This vulnerability is fixed in 10.34.0 and 11.4.0.

Patch / fix

  • npm pnpm 10.34.0, 11.4.0
  • pnpm pnpm 10.33.4, 11.4.0

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-2026-50016 updated cvss 8.0

pnpm: pnpm: Arbitrary code execution due to path traversal in dependency aliases

  • Red Hat AMQ Broker 7 pnpm
    not affected: vulnerable code not present
  • Red Hat Build of Keycloak pnpm
    not affected: component not present
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 pnpm Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack pnpm
    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
total
Assessed
4 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.53% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 44% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/security/advisories/GHSA-hwx4-2j3j-g496 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm pnpm
<10.34.0
>=11.0.0, <11.4.0
10.34.0
11.4.0

Affected products

  • pnpm pnpm

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-23 Relative Path Traversal

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.