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CVE-2022-26183

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-03-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-426

Description

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.

Affected products

• pnpm: before 6.15.1 — fixed in 6.15.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: pnpm 6.15.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/commit/04b7f60861ddee8331e50d70e193d1e701abeefb
• https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/releases/tag/v6.15.1
• https://www.sonarsource.com/blog/securing-developer-tools-package-managers/
• https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/commit/04b7f60861ddee8331e50d70e193d1e701abeefb
• https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/releases/tag/v6.15.1
• https://www.sonarsource.com/blog/securing-developer-tools-package-managers/

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