High 7.6Published Jan 7, 2026

CVE-2025-69262pnpm vulnerable to Command Injection via environment variable substitution

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 26, 2026, 6:00 AM ET)

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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.

CVSS: 7.6 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-78, CWE-94
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: GitHub_M
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Feb 26, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

pnpm pnpm pnpm:pnpm (from the name)	from 6.25.0, < 10.27.0	CNA record
pnpm pnpm pnpm:pnpm	from 6.25.0 before 10.27.0	NVD

References

https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/security/advisories/GHSA-2phv-j68v-wwqxx-refsource-confirm, exploit, vendor-advisory
https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/releases/tag/v10.27.0x-refsource-misc, product, release-notes

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