{"items":[{"id":"NVI-00017596","kind":"vulnerability","title":"pnpm: Transitive dependency alias path traversal allows project path override via symlink replacement","revision":1,"unknowns":["Customer inventory, deployment, reachability and exploitation have not been inspected."],"lifecycle":"active","identifiers":["GHSA-hwx4-2j3j-g496","CVE-2026-50016"],"plain_summary":"GitHub lists this reviewed advisory for pnpm, pnpm. Published version ranges and source prerequisites are shown below; this is not an inspection of a visitor’s application.","review_status":"source_listed","control_topics":[],"public_actions":[{"summary":"Identify the exact component and deployed version, examine the linked publisher’s conditions, and retain evidence of any mitigation.","source_ids":["sr-28e47f33d52b3396bcd2fb5455c9d138"],"action_type":"investigate","limitations":"Confirm current vendor support, compatibility and deployment evidence. This report has not tested a fix in your system.","current_supported_target":null}],"schema_version":"1.1.0","source_metrics":[{"kind":"CVSS","as_of":"2026-06-26T22:55:52.000Z","value":"8.8 high","meaning":"GitHub source severity; exploitability and local consequence require separate evidence.","source_id":"sr-28e47f33d52b3396bcd2fb5455c9d138"}],"why_it_matters":"Published affected context helps an owner decide what evidence to gather. This report has not examined your application.","related_sources":[{"id":"sr-28e47f33d52b3396bcd2fb5455c9d138","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hwx4-2j3j-g496","basis":"vendor_advisory","notes":"GitHub Advisory Database; CC-BY-4.0. Each advisory links its original attribution. Null normalizes fields.","title":"GHSA-hwx4-2j3j-g496","publisher":"GitHub Advisory Database","observed_at":"2026-11-05T19:05:04.022Z"}],"affected_context":[{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-28e47f33d52b3396bcd2fb5455c9d138"],"technology":"pnpm","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"## Summary\n\npnpm allows a transitive dependency alias from registry package metadata to contain path traversal segments. During install, pnpm later uses that alias as a filesystem path when linking dependency nodes. As a result, a registry package can cause `pnpm install - ignore-scripts` to replace paths in the current project with symlinks to attacker-controlled dependency package directories.\n\n`.git/hooks` is only one useful target. The same primitive can replace other project-local paths that are consumed by later tools, for example:\n\n- `.husky` or `.githooks` for Git hook dispatchers\n- `scripts/`, `tools/`, `bin/`, or `tests/` for project scripts and CI commands\n- `.github/actions/` for local GitHub Actions used later in the workflow\n- `dist/` or other publish/build output directories before `pnpm pack` or\n  `pnpm publish`\n- `node_modules/.bin` or undeclared `node_modules/` paths used by later\n  command or module resolution\n\nTargets that are regular files can also be replaced with symlinks to a package directory, but those cases are usually denial of service. Directory targets are more useful because many developer tools execute or load files from those directories","public_affected_ranges":["< 10.34.0"]},{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-28e47f33d52b3396bcd2fb5455c9d138"],"technology":"pnpm","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"## Summary\n\npnpm allows a transitive dependency alias from registry package metadata to contain path traversal segments. During install, pnpm later uses that alias as a filesystem path when linking dependency nodes. As a result, a registry package can cause `pnpm install - ignore-scripts` to replace paths in the current project with symlinks to attacker-controlled dependency package directories.\n\n`.git/hooks` is only one useful target. The same primitive can replace other project-local paths that are consumed by later tools, for example:\n\n- `.husky` or `.githooks` for Git hook dispatchers\n- `scripts/`, `tools/`, `bin/`, or `tests/` for project scripts and CI commands\n- `.github/actions/` for local GitHub Actions used later in the workflow\n- `dist/` or other publish/build output directories before `pnpm pack` or\n  `pnpm publish`\n- `node_modules/.bin` or undeclared `node_modules/` paths used by later\n  command or module resolution\n\nTargets that are regular files can also be replaced with symlinks to a package directory, but those cases are usually denial of service. Directory targets are more useful because many developer tools execute or load files from those directories","public_affected_ranges":[">= 11.0.0, < 11.4.0"]}],"null_published_at":"2026-11-05T19:10:21.424Z","source_updated_at":"2026-06-26T22:55:52.000Z","source_disclosed_at":"2026-06-26T22:55:51.000Z","is_synthetic_fixture":false,"null_last_reviewed_at":null,"public_change_summary":"First indexed by Null; source disclosure date is shown separately.","null_first_observed_at":"2026-11-05T19:05:04.022Z"}],"next_cursor":null,"snapshot_revision":"42594"}