GHSA-xv56-3wq5-9997: Renovate vulnerable to arbitrary command injection via kustomize manager and malicious helm repository

January 13, 2026

The user-provided chart name in the kustomize manager is appended to the helm pull --untar command without proper sanitization.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-xv56-3wq5-9997
github.com/renovatebot/renovate
github.com/renovatebot/renovate/security/advisories/GHSA-xv56-3wq5-9997

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