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Renovate before 44.11.2 Credential Exfiltration via Link Header

CVE-2026-88882

Renovate is a dependency update automation tool. In versions before 44.11.2 (and Mend Renovate CE/EE images and charts before 15.4.0, and mend-renovate-enterprise-edition helm chart before 10.4.0), when listing new package versions from a NuGet registry Renovate follows pagination URLs supplied by the registry in the HTTP `Link` header without verifying that the target has the same origin as the configured registry. Registry credentials are attached to the request for the 'next' page, so a malicious or compromised NuGet registry can return a `Link` header pointing at an attacker-controlled server and cause Renovate to send the registry credentials to that server. Exploitation requires the remote registry to be malicious or compromised; such a registry would normally already have received the credentials on the initial request, so the issue primarily allows the credentials to be delivered to an additional, attacker-chosen host. The fix restricts pagination to the same origin; the previous behaviour can be re-enabled with the RENOVATE_X_NUGET_PAGINATION_ALLOW_CROSS_ORIGIN option.

No Active Exploit Signals
CVSS Base Score
9.2
CRITICAL
EPSS Probability:0.41%
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Attack Surface
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Authentication
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Weaponization
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SSVC Action
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Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-601 ↗URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')

Affected Products & Versions

Vendor Product Affected Versions
renovatebot renovate 0 < 44.11.2 (affected), 44.11.2 (unaffected)
mend renovate-ce 0 < 15.4.0 (affected), 15.4.0 (unaffected)
mend renovate-ee-server 0 < 15.4.0 (affected), 15.4.0 (unaffected)
mend renovate-ee-worker 0 < 15.4.0 (affected), 15.4.0 (unaffected)
mend mend-renovate-ce 0 < 15.4.0 (affected), 15.4.0 (unaffected)
mend mend-renovate-enterprise-edition 0 < 10.4.0 (affected), 10.4.0 (unaffected)

References & Technical Advisories

No reference links found.

Threat Intelligence Signals

EPSS Score
0.409%

Identity & Timeline

StatusPUBLISHED
Assigning AuthorityVulnCheck · Bug Bounty Provider · USA
Reserved2026-09-10T11:25:34
Published2026-09-10T13:05:33
Patch Date2026-08-27
Last Updated2026-09-29T22:10:38

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