Renovate versions >=32.124.0 and before 42.68.5 (and Mend renovate-ce/renovate-ee before 13.3.0) contain a command injection vulnerability in Gradle Wrapper artifact handling. When Renovate processes Gradle Wrapper updates, it invokes a wrapper update command via a shell (e.g. /bin/sh -c ... ./gradlew :wrapper --gradle-distribution-url ). If an attacker supplies a malicious gradle-wrapper.properties whose distributionUrl contains shell command substitution syntax such as $(...), the shell evaluates it before Gradle parses the URL, resulting in arbitrary command execution in the Renovate runtime. Exploitation requires the attacker to introduce the malicious file into a repository that Renovate scans; the issue occurs even when allowScripts is disabled.
CVE-2026-76228
Score 6.7 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-08-19. a secondary CVSS source baseline 6.7; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 6.7
- EG Score
- 6.7(high)
- EG Risk
- 46(Track*)EG Risk 46/100SSVC: Track*
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity67% × 45%Exploitation40% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Watch closely — could escalate to Attend. - EPSS PROB
- 1%
- EPSS %ILE
- 50%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
August 19, 2026
Last Modified
August 19, 2026
Advisory Details (2)
Auto-updated Aug 19, 2026Renovate before 42.68.5 Remote Code Execution via Gradle Wrapper | Advisories | VulnCheck
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/renovate-before-remote-code-execution-via-gradle-wrapperArbitrary command injection via Gradle Wrapper and malicious `distributionUrl` · Advisory · renovatebot/renovate · GitHub
https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/security/advisories/GHSA-pfq2-hh62-7m96Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-76228(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 8× in last 7d / 8× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-08-20 22:56 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-20 14:00 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-20 14:00 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-19 15:24 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-19 14:57 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-19 14:26 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-19 14:12 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-19 14:12 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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- CVE-2011-0372EG 10.0HIGH
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