CVE-2026-76230: Renovatebot Renovate

Medium severity, CVSS 6.7. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Renovate versions from 35.63.0 before 40.33.0 contain a command injection vulnerability in the npm manager where user-provided packageName values are appended to npm install commands without proper sanitization. Attackers with repository write access can craft malicious Renovate configuration files to execute arbitrary commands on the machine running Renovate.

Affected products

• Renovatebot Renovate: from 35.63.0, before 40.33.0 (fixed in 40.33.0)

Published 2026-08-19. Last modified 2026-09-08.