CVE-2026-42089
HIGHyeoman-environment Vulnerable to Arbitrary Package Installation without User Confirmation
Title source: cnaDescription
Yeoman Environment provides an API to discover, create, and run generators, and to configure where and how a generator is resolved. Versions 2.9.0 through 6.0.0 install missing local generator packages from caller-supplied package names without user confirmation. In downstream consumers that pass attacker-controlled project configuration into this path, this can result in arbitrary package installation and code execution during CLI bootstrap. The vulnerable method is installLocalGenerators(), which calls repository.install() directly without prompting the user. This issue has been fixed in version 6.0.0.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
X_Refsource_Confirm x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/yeoman/environment/security/advisories/GHSA-vv9j-gjw2-j8wp
X_Refsource_Misc x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/yeoman/environment/pull/753
X_Refsource_Misc x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/yeoman/environment/commit/78d2af7e60294784b8a8b3b3b5099c6874b6a1fa
Scores
CVSS v3
8.6
EPSS
0.0019
EPSS Percentile
9.2%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-829
Status
published
Products (1)
yeoman/environment
>= 2.9.0, < 6.0.1
Published
Jun 16, 2026
Tracked Since
Jun 16, 2026