GHSA-36j9-mx87-2cff: Renovate vulnerable to arbitrary command injection via hermit manager and maliciously named dependencies

January 13, 2026

The user-provided string depName in the hermit manager is appended to the ./hermit install and ./hermit uninstall commands without proper sanitization.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-36j9-mx87-2cff
github.com/renovatebot/renovate
github.com/renovatebot/renovate/security/advisories/GHSA-36j9-mx87-2cff

Code Behaviors & Features

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