Description
PNPM v6.15.1 and below was discovered to contain an untrusted search path which causes the application to behave in unexpected ways when users execute PNPM commands in a directory containing malicious content. This vulnerability occurs when the application is ran on Windows OS.
Remediation
References
https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/releases/tag/v6.15.1
https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/commit/04b7f60861ddee8331e50d70e193d1e701abeefb
https://www.sonarsource.com/blog/securing-developer-tools-package-managers/
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