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pnpm vulnerable to Command Injection via environment variable substitution

Type: advisorySources: OSV

pnpm is a package manager. Versions 6.25.0 through 10.26.2 have a Command Injection vulnerability when using environment variable substitution in .npmrc configuration files with tokenHelper settings. An attacker who can control environment variables during pnpm operations could achieve Remote Code Execution (RCE) in build environments. This issue is fixed in version 10.27.0.

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CVEs
CVE-2025-69262
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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4 Nov 2026, 16:34 UTC · Revision 1

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pnpm vulnerable to Command Injection via environment variable substitution

core-osv · Original source

Published 7 Jan 2026, 22:30 UTC

pnpm is a package manager. Versions 6.25.0 through 10.26.2 have a Command Injection vulnerability when using environment variable substitution in .npmrc configuration files with tokenHelper settings. An attacker who can control environment variables during pnpm operations could achieve Remote Code Execution (RCE) in build environments. This issue is fixed in version 10.27.0.

osv:CVE-2025-69262
Complete source record
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