CVE-2025-69262

pnpm vulnerable to Command Injection via environment variable substitution

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.

Affected

pnpm

CVSS v3.1 NVD

7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v3.1 GITHUB

7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

1.04% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 63rd percentile

Published

2026-01-07

Updated

2026-02-26

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• advisories/GHSA-2phv-j68v-wwqx

Security advisories

• pnpm/pnpm/security/advisories/GHSA-2phv-j68v-wwqx
• pnpm/pnpm/releases/tag/v10.27.0

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry