Improper Removal of Sensitive Information Before Storage or Transfer Affecting renovate package, versions >=42.68.1 <42.96.3>=43.0.0 <43.4.4
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- published15 Feb 2026
- disclosed13 Feb 2026
- creditMichael Kriese
Introduced: 13 Feb 2026
New CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-212 (opens in a new tab)Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
How to fix?
Upgrade renovate to version 42.96.3, 43.4.4 or higher.
Overview
renovate is a dependency updater.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Removal of Sensitive Information Before Storage or Transfer due to spawned child processes inheriting and not properly filtering environment variables. An attacker can access sensitive environment variables from the calling process from inside child processes.