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    CVE-2026-23889

    pnpm is a package manager. Prior to version 10.28.1, a path traversal vulnerability in pnpm's tarball extraction allows malicious packages to write files outside the package directory on Windows. The path normalization only checks for `./` but not `.\`. On Windows, backslashes are directory separators, enabling path traversal. This vulnerability is Windows-only. This issue impacts Windows pnpm users and Windows CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions Windows runners, Azure DevOps). It can lead to overwriting `.npmrc`, build configs, or other files. Version 10.28.1 contains a patch.

    Published:Jan 26, 2026
    Last Modified:Apr 18, 2026
    EPS:Jan 26, 2026
    EPSS Score:0.00017
    CVSS Score:6.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Microsoft
    Product
    Windows
    Vendor
    Pnpm
    Product
    Pnpm

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