{"id":"CVE-2026-121745","aliases":["EUVD-2026-117127","GHSA-h3c2-g6gc-6cgx"],"status":"published","title":"nvm exposes NVM_AUTH_HEADER to other local users on the curl/wget command line","description":"Node Version Manager (nvm) is a POSIX-compliant shell function for managing multiple node.js versions. In versions 0.40.0 through 0.40.8, when `NVM_AUTH_HEADER` is set, `nvm_download` passes the credential to curl or wget as a `--header \"Authorization: ...\"` command-line argument. Process arguments are visible to every local user (on Linux via `ps` or `/proc//cmdline` unless `/proc` is mounted with `hidepid=`; on macOS via `ps`), so another unprivileged account on the same machine can read the token while nvm is downloading during `nvm ls-remote`, `nvm install`, and similar commands, and gain whatever access it grants on the private mirror. Only users who set `NVM_AUTH_HEADER` on a host shared with other local accounts are affected. Version 0.41.0 passes the header to curl on stdin and to GNU Wget in a private temporary config file. BusyBox wget reads no config file, so when it is the only downloader available the header is still passed as an argument.","severity":{"version":"4.0","score":2,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","level":"low","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-12","score":0.00122,"percentile":0.02017,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-214"],"published":"2026-11-04T21:28:03Z","modified":"2026-11-05T21:32:21Z","products":[{"vendor":"nvm-sh","product":"nvm"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm/security/advisories/GHSA-h3c2-g6gc-6cgx","tags":["vendor-advisory","advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm/commit/903e3493699399d049f3af445c2d81688b6a7f5c","tags":["patch","fix"]},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/121xxx/CVE-2026-121745.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-121745","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm","tags":["package"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-121745","title":"nvm exposes NVM_AUTH_HEADER to other local users on the curl/wget command line","description":"Node Version Manager (nvm) is a POSIX-compliant shell function for managing multiple node.js versions. In versions 0.40.0 through 0.40.8, when `NVM_AUTH_HEADER` is set, `nvm_download` passes the credential to curl or wget as a `--header \"Authorization: ...\"` command-line argument. Process arguments are visible to every local user (on Linux via `ps` or `/proc//cmdline` unless `/proc` is mounted with `hidepid=`; on macOS via `ps`), so another unprivileged account on the same machine can read the token while nvm is downloading during `nvm ls-remote`, `nvm install`, and similar commands, and gain whatever access it grants on the private mirror. Only users who set `NVM_AUTH_HEADER` on a host shared with other local accounts are affected. Version 0.41.0 passes the header to curl on stdin and to GNU Wget in a private temporary config file. BusyBox wget reads no config file, so when it is the only downloader available the header is still passed as an argument.","status":"published","published":"2026-11-04T21:28:03.234Z","modified":"2026-11-09T20:49:04.757Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":2,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","level":"low","assessor":"cna"},{"version":"3.1","score":2.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N","level":"low","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-214"],"updated_at":"2026-11-09T21:34:55.043741Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2026-117127","description":"Node Version Manager (nvm) is a POSIX-compliant shell function for managing multiple node.js versions. In versions 0.40.0 through 0.40.8, when `NVM_AUTH_HEADER` is set, `nvm_download` passes the credential to curl or wget as a `--header \"Authorization: ...\"` command-line argument. Process arguments are visible to every local user (on Linux via `ps` or `/proc//cmdline` unless `/proc` is mounted with `hidepid=`; on macOS via `ps`), so another unprivileged account on the same machine can read the token while nvm is downloading during `nvm ls-remote`, `nvm install`, and similar commands, and gain whatever access it grants on the private mirror. Only users who set `NVM_AUTH_HEADER` on a host shared with other local accounts are affected. Version 0.41.0 passes the header to curl on stdin and to GNU Wget in a private temporary config file. BusyBox wget reads no config file, so when it is the only downloader available the header is still passed as an argument.","status":"published","published":"2026-11-04T21:28:03Z","modified":"2026-11-09T20:49:04Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":2,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","level":"low"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-09T22:18:21.971974Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2026-121745","description":"Node Version Manager (nvm) is a POSIX-compliant shell function for managing multiple node.js versions. In versions 0.40.0 through 0.40.8, when `NVM_AUTH_HEADER` is set, `nvm_download` passes the credential to curl or wget as a `--header \"Authorization: ...\"` command-line argument. Process arguments are visible to every local user (on Linux via `ps` or `/proc//cmdline` unless `/proc` is mounted with `hidepid=`; on macOS via `ps`), so another unprivileged account on the same machine can read the token while nvm is downloading during `nvm ls-remote`, `nvm install`, and similar commands, and gain whatever access it grants on the private mirror. Only users who set `NVM_AUTH_HEADER` on a host shared with other local accounts are affected. Version 0.41.0 passes the header to curl on stdin and to GNU Wget in a private temporary config file. BusyBox wget reads no config file, so when it is the only downloader available the header is still passed as an argument.","status":"published","published":"2026-11-04T22:17:53.97Z","modified":"2026-11-10T21:46:30.45Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":2,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X","level":"low","assessor":"secondary"},{"version":"3.1","score":2.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N","level":"low","assessor":"secondary"}],"cwes":["CWE-214"],"updated_at":"2026-11-09T23:16:04.854042Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"CVE-2026-121745","title":"nvm exposes NVM_AUTH_HEADER to other local users on the curl/wget command line","description":"Node Version Manager (nvm) is a POSIX-compliant shell function for managing multiple node.js versions. 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BusyBox wget reads no config file, so when it is the only downloader available the header is still passed as an argument.","status":"published","published":"2026-11-04T21:28:03.234Z","modified":"2026-11-12T02:31:10.572450252Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":2,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","level":"low"}],"cwes":["CWE-214"],"updated_at":"2026-11-10T10:57:30.46332Z"}]}}