CVE-2024-47829 pnpm uses the md5 path shortening function causes packet paths to coincide, which causes indirect packet overwriting

What is CVE-2024-47829?

CVE-2024-47829 is a medium-severity vulnerability in pnpm, published on 23 Apr 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

pnpm is a package manager. Prior to version 10.0.0, the path shortening function uses the md5 function as a path shortening compression function, and if a collision occurs, it will result in the same storage path for two different libraries. Although the real names are under the package name /node_modoules/, there are no version numbers for the libraries they refer to. This issue has been patched in version 10.0.0.

Weakness: CWE-328

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-47829?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including pnpm. It affects 1 product.

Products include Pnpm Pnpm.

How do I fix CVE-2024-47829?

Upgrade pnpm to 10.0.0 or later.

Is CVE-2024-47829 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-47829 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in pnpm

• CVE-2026-50016 pnpm: Transitive dependency alias path traversal allows project path override via symlink replacement High 8.8
• CVE-2026-55698 pnpm: Project env lockfile can short-circuit package-manager resolution and execute lockfile-selected pnpm bytes High 8.8
• CVE-2025-69264 pnpm v10+ Bypass "Dependency lifecycle scripts execution disabled by default" High 8.8
• CVE-2022-26183 Untrusted Search Path in PNPM High 8.8
• CVE-2026-59195 pnpm: Path traversal in configDependencies env lockfile allows symlink creation outside node_modules/.pnpm-config High 8.2

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-8cc4-rfj6-fhg4, MINI-349m-cqm3-wrqj.