Answer in brief
CVE-2026-88886 records a High severity (CVSS 8.5) vulnerability in Renovate before 44.14.7 Command Injection via gradle-wrapper. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps mend/mend-renovate-ce (generic), mend/mend-renovate-enterprise-edition (generic), renovatebot/renovate (generic), renovatebot/renovate (generic) and additional mapped packages. Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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CVSS is 8.5. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
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The current feed maps mend/mend-renovate-ce (generic), mend/mend-renovate-enterprise-edition (generic), renovatebot/renovate (generic), renovatebot/renovate (generic) and additional mapped packages. Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| mend/mend-renovate-cegeneric | >=0 <15.4.0 | 15.4.0 |
| mend/mend-renovate-enterprise-editiongeneric | >=0 <10.4.0 | 10.4.0 |
| renovatebot/renovategeneric | >=0 <44.14.7 | 44.14.7 |
| renovatebot/renovategeneric | >=0 <15.4.0 | 15.4.0 |
| renovatebot/renovategeneric | >=0 <10.4.0 | 10.4.0 |
| mend/renovate-cegeneric | >=0 <15.4.0 | 15.4.0 |
| mend/renovate-ee-servergeneric | >=0 <15.4.0 | 15.4.0 |
| mend/renovate-ee-workergeneric | >=0 <15.4.0 | 15.4.0 |
Published upstream
Sep 10, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Sep 29, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Sep 10, 2026
Renovate is a dependency update automation tool. In versions before 44.14.7 (and in Mend Renovate CE/EE distributions before 15.4.0, and the mend-renovate-enterprise-edition Helm chart before 10.4.0), the manager/gradle-wrapper module does not escape the distributionUrl value read from a repository's gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties file before invoking the Gradle Wrapper CLI. In self-hosted deployments configured with binarySource=docker and allowedUnsafeExecutions=['gradleWrapper', ...], a repository that supplies a crafted distributionUrl (for example, appending a shell metacharacter and command) can cause arbitrary commands to be executed as the Renovate user when Renovate processes a Gradle Wrapper update. The issue is fixed in Renovate 44.14.7; as a workaround, remove 'gradleWrapper' from allowedUnsafeExecutions.
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