CVE-2026-50017

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.

• CWE-200
• CWE-522

• https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/security/advisories/GHSA-cjhr-43r9-cfmwExploit, Vendor Advisory

Published

Jun 25, 2026

Last Modified

Jun 30, 2026

Status

Analyzed

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