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CVE-2026-10796

· Published 04/06/2026 18:16 · Modified 04/06/2026 20:33

Labels: CVE-2026-10796 2026-06-04CVE-2026-10796CWE-78ce714d77-add3-4f53-aff5-83d477b104bb

Essential information

Published
04/06/2026 18:16
Modified
04/06/2026 20:33
Author
Creator
CVSS
7.5 HIGH (v3) 7.5 HIGH (v4.0)
CISA KEV
No
CWE
CVSS vector

CVSS metrics

Description

nvm (Node Version Manager) through 0.40.4 executes arbitrary commands from version strings supplied by the configured Node.js/io.js mirror. Commands such as `nvm install` read the available versions from the mirror's index.tab and use the selected version, without sanitization, to build download URLs and shell/awk commands. Two sinks are affected by the same untrusted input: nvm_download() built a curl/wget command string and ran it with `eval`, so a version field containing command substitution (for example $(id)) was executed by the local shell; and nvm_get_checksum() interpolated the version-derived download slug into an awk program, so a crafted version could execute arbitrary commands via awk's system(). An attacker who controls the configured mirror, supplies mirror content to a user or CI on a non-default mirror, or machine-in-the-middles a non-TLS mirror can ∴ run arbitrary commands with the privileges of the user running nvm. The default mirror (https://nodejs.org over TLS) is not affected. Fixed on master (pending the next tagged release) by passing every argument as a literal argv element instead of using eval, by passing the value to awk as data via -v instead of interpolating it into the program, and by rejecting any version outside the Node.js/io.js version grammar before it is used.

NVD status

Status
Analyzed — CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.
Source
ce714d77-add3-4f53-aff5-83d477b104bb
NVD
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Affected products (CPE)

ProductCPE
openjsf / node version manager cpe:2.3:a:openjsf:node_version_manager:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

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