Renovate before 44.11.2 Credential Exfiltration via Link Header
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.
Evidence and details
Imported from structured advisory data. Source references identify upstream records or fields; verify affected versions and your deployed configuration.
Security context
Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-88882
renovate
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product
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renovate-ce
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/1/product
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renovate-ee-server
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/2/product
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renovate-ee-worker
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/3/product
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mend-renovate-ce
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/4/product
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mend-renovate-enterprise-edition
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/5/product
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- Related CVEs
- CVE-2026-88882
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Publisher severity
critical
Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics