CVE-2026-42089

HIGH

yeoman-environment Vulnerable to Arbitrary Package Installation without User Confirmation

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

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