CVE-2026-16735

medium

Description

A security vulnerability has been detected in release-it conventional-changelog up to 11.0.1. This affects the function writeChangelog of the file index.js of the component Changelog File Handler. Such manipulation of the argument infile leads to os command injection. The attack must be carried out locally. The exploit has been disclosed publicly and may be used. The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet.

References

https://vuldb.com/vuln/382479/cti

https://vuldb.com/vuln/382479

https://vuldb.com/submit/861024

https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-16735

https://github.com/release-it/conventional-changelog/issues/149

https://github.com/release-it/conventional-changelog/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-07-23

Updated: 2026-07-23

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Severity: Medium

CVSS v4

Base Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00622