CVE-2026-42089

high

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.

References

https://github.com/yeoman/environment/security/advisories/GHSA-vv9j-gjw2-j8wp

https://github.com/yeoman/environment/pull/753

https://github.com/yeoman/environment/commit/78d2af7e60294784b8a8b3b3b5099c6874b6a1fa

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-06-16

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.6

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00014