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Fencer Vulns
high 7.1

CVE-2026-59194 json

pnpm: patch-remove could delete project-selected files outside the patches directory

published 2026-06-27 4 mo ago modified 2026-07-08 4 mo ago also GHSA-72r4-9c5j-mj57 , EUVD-2026-41881

cvss
7.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 34%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

pnpm is a package manager. Prior to 10.34.4 and 11.7.0, a crafted patch entry could resolve outside the configured patches directory and cause pnpm patch-remove to delete an arbitrary reachable file. This vulnerability is fixed in 10.34.4 and 11.7.0.

Patch / fix

  • npm pnpm 10.34.4, 11.7.0
  • pnpm pnpm 10.34.4, 11.7.0

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-2026-59194 updated cvss 7.1

pnpm: pnpm: patch-remove could delete project-selected files outside the patches directory

  • Red Hat AMQ Broker 7 pnpm 8.10.0
    not affected: vulnerable code not present
  • Red Hat Build of Keycloak pnpm 8.10.0
    not affected: component not present
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 pnpm 8.10.0 Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack pnpm 8.10.0
    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
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
4 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 34% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/security/advisories/GHSA-72r4-9c5j-mj57 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
GitHub 3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm pnpm
<10.34.4
>=11.0.0, <11.7.0
10.34.4
11.7.0

Affected products

  • pnpm pnpm

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
  • CWE-73 External Control of File Name or Path

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.