Untrusted Search Path Affecting pnpm package, versions <9.14.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.1% (25th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-PNPM-8496388
  • published11 Dec 2024
  • disclosed10 Dec 2024
  • creditNikita Skovoroda

Introduced: 10 Dec 2024

CVE-2024-53866  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-426  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade pnpm to version 9.14.4 or higher.

Overview

pnpm is a Fast, disk space efficient package manager

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Untrusted Search Path due to mishandling of overrides and global cache settings even when ignore-scripts=true.

Workaround

Users who are unable to upgrade to the fixed version are advised to use separate cache and store directories in each workspace.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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version 3.1