CVE-2026-76229
MediumCVSS 6.7Summary
Renovate versions from 39.218.0 before 40.33.0 contain an arbitrary command injection vulnerability in the kustomize manager where user-provided chart names are appended to helm pull commands without proper sanitization. Attackers with repository write access can craft malicious kustomization.yaml files with specially crafted chart names to execute arbitrary commands on the Renovate host machine.
Risk Assessment
Potential for remote code execution on the Renovate server, leading to data confidentiality and integrity breaches and environment takeover.
Recommendation
Upgrade Renovate to version 40.33.0 or later, which includes the fix for this vulnerability.
Original NVD description (English source)
Renovate versions from 39.218.0 before 40.33.0 contain an arbitrary command injection vulnerability in the kustomize manager where user-provided chart names are appended to helm pull commands without proper sanitization. Attackers with repository write access can craft malicious kustomization.yaml files with specially crafted chart names to execute arbitrary commands on the Renovate host machine.