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Renovate vulnerable to leakage of temporary repository tokens into Pull Request comments

  • Disclosed: 21.10.2019
  • Updated: 20.10.2026 13:17

Impact

Temporary repository tokens were leaked into Pull Requests comments in during certain Go Modules update failure scenarios.

Patches

The problem has been patched. Self-hosted users should upgrade to v19.38.7 or later.

Workarounds

Disable Go Modules support.

References

Blog post: https://renovatebot.com/blog/go-modules-vulnerability-disclosure

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
npm package renovate >= 13.87.0, < 19.38.7 19.38.7

References

CVSS score 5.3/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-200
Platform
npm
Package
renovate
Disclosed
21.10.2019
Updated
20.10.2026 13:17

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-v7x3-7hw7-pcjg - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: renovate

All published vulnerabilities of this package (npm package), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

All (11) in the archive
Total entries
11
First → latest
10.2019 04.2026
Without a fix
0
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • Medium 11

Disclosures per year

Severity:
  1. Renovate affected by remote code execution was possible using the bazel-module or bazelisk managers, when using lockFileMaintenance
    Medium · 6.3 CVE-2026-76226 >= 43.65.0, < 43.102.11 43.102.11
  2. Child processes spawned by Renovate incorrectly have full access to environment variables
    Medium · 5.5 CVE-2026-76227 >= 42.68.1, < 42.96.3, >= 43.0.0, < 43.4.4 42.96.3, 43.4.4
  3. Renovate vulnerable to arbitrary command injection via helmv3 manager and malicious Chart.yaml file
    Medium · 6.7 CVE-2026-76232 >= 31.51.0, < 40.33.0 40.33.0
  4. Renovate vulnerable to arbitrary command injection via gleam manager and malicious gleam.toml file
    Medium · 6.7 CVE-2026-76233 >= 39.53.0, < 40.33.0 40.33.0
  5. Renovate vulnerable to arbitrary command injection via hermit manager and maliciously named dependencies
    Medium · 6.7 CVE-2026-76231 >= 32.135.0, < 40.33.0 40.33.0
  6. Renovate vulnerable to arbitrary command injection via npm manager and malicious Renovate configuration
    Medium · 6.7 CVE-2026-76230 >= 35.63.0, < 40.33.0 40.33.0
  7. Renovate vulnerable to arbitrary command injection via kustomize manager and malicious helm repository
    Medium · 6.7 CVE-2026-76229 >= 39.218.0, < 40.33.0 40.33.0
  8. Renovate vulnerable to arbitrary command injection via Gradle Wrapper and malicious `distributionUrl`
    Medium · 6.7 CVE-2026-76228 >= 32.124.0, < 42.68.5 42.68.5
  9. Renovate vulnerable to arbitrary command injection via helmv3 manager and registryAliases
    Medium · 5.4 CVE-2024-58376 >= 37.158.0, < 37.199.0 37.199.0
  10. Renovate vulnerable to Azure DevOps token leakage in logs
    Medium CVE-2020-37267 >= 19.180.0, < 23.25.1 23.25.1
  11. Renovate vulnerable to leakage of temporary repository tokens into Pull Request comments this entry
    Medium · 5.3 CVE-2019-25766 >= 13.87.0, < 19.38.7 19.38.7

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