Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-50016
pnpm is a package manager. Prior to 10.34.0 and 11.4.0, pnpm 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. This vulnerability is fixed in 10.34.0 and 11.4.0.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.003
EPSS Ranking 22.5%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 8.8
Products affected by CVE-2026-50016
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cpe:2.3:a:pnpm:pnpm:11.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:pnpm:pnpm:11.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:pnpm:pnpm:11.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:pnpm:pnpm:11.0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:pnpm:pnpm:11.0.4
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cpe:2.3:a:pnpm:pnpm:11.0.5
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cpe:2.3:a:pnpm:pnpm:11.0.6
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cpe:2.3:a:pnpm:pnpm:11.0.7
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cpe:2.3:a:pnpm:pnpm:11.0.8
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cpe:2.3:a:pnpm:pnpm:11.0.9
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cpe:2.3:a:pnpm:pnpm:11.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:pnpm:pnpm:11.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:pnpm:pnpm:11.1.2
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cpe:2.3:a:pnpm:pnpm:11.1.3
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cpe:2.3:a:pnpm:pnpm:11.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:pnpm:pnpm:11.2.1
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cpe:2.3:a:pnpm:pnpm:11.2.2
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cpe:2.3:a:pnpm:pnpm:11.3.0