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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2026-76228

Change History

New CVE Received from VulnCheck 8/19/2026 10:17:49 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

                  
                
              
Renovate versions >=32.124.0 and before 42.68.5 (and Mend renovate-ce/renovate-ee before 13.3.0) contain a command injection vulnerability in Gradle Wrapper artifact handling. When Renovate processes Gradle Wrapper updates, it invokes a wrapper update command via a shell (e.g. /bin/sh -c ... ./gradlew :wrapper --gradle-distribution-url <value>). If an attacker supplies a malicious gradle-wrapper.properties whose distributionUrl contains shell command substitution syntax such as $(...), the shell evaluates it before Gradle parses the URL, resulting in arbitrary command execution in the Renovate runtime. Exploitation requires the attacker to introduce the malicious file into a repository that Renovate scans; the issue occurs even when allowScripts is disabled.
Added CVSS V4.0

                  
                
              
AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Added CVSS V3.1

                  
                
              
AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Added CWE

                  
                
              
CWE-78
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/security/advisories/GHSA-pfq2-hh62-7m96
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/renovate-before-remote-code-execution-via-gradle-wrapper
Added Affected

                  
                
              
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