CVE-2026-50017

Summary

pnpm is a package manager. Prior to 10.34.0 and 11.4.0, pnpm can send user-level unscoped npm authentication credentials to a registry chosen by a repository-local .npmrc file. In the reproduced case, the user's npm config contains a default registry and an unscoped _authToken. The repository does not provide a token-bearing auth line. It only sets registry= to a different registry URL. During normal pnpm metadata/install workflows, pnpm binds the user-origin unscoped credential to the repository-selected registry and sends it as an Authorization header. This vulnerability is fixed in 10.34.0 and 11.4.0.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
pnpmpnpm< 10.33.4affected
pnpmpnpm>= 11.0.0, < 11.4.0affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-200: CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
  • CWE-522: CWE-522: Insufficiently Protected Credentials

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: yes
    • Technical Impact: partial

References