Directory Traversal Affecting pnpm package, versions <10.28.2-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.53% (44th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-MINIMOSLATEST-PNPM-15147436
  • published30 Jan 2026
  • disclosed26 Jan 2026

Introduced: 26 Jan 2026

CVE-2026-24056  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Minimos:latest pnpm to version 10.28.2-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pnpm package and not the pnpm package as distributed by Minimos. See How to fix? for Minimos:latest relevant fixed versions and status.

pnpm is a package manager. Prior to version 10.28.2, when pnpm installs a file: (directory) or git: dependency, it follows symlinks and reads their target contents without constraining them to the package root. A malicious package containing a symlink to an absolute path (e.g., /etc/passwd, ~/.ssh/id_rsa) causes pnpm to copy that file's contents into node_modules, leaking local data. The vulnerability only affects file: and git: dependencies. Registry packages (npm) have symlinks stripped during publish and are NOT affected. The issue impacts developers installing local/file dependencies andCI/CD pipelines installing git dependencies. It can lead to credential theft via symlinks to ~/.aws/credentials, ~/.npmrc, ~/.ssh/id_rsa. Version 10.28.2 contains a patch.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1