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CVE-2026-121748
Node Version Manager (nvm) is a POSIX-compliant shell function for managing multiple node.js versions. In versions 0.27.0 through 0.40.8, when a project's .npmrc sets prefix, nvm use tells the user to run nvm use --delete-prefix, which runs npm config delete prefix and npm config delete globalconfig in the current directory without naming a config file. npm loads the project .npmrc before deciding which file to edit, so that file chooses the target: userconfig=~/.bashrc makes npm rewrite ~/.bashrc as ini (corrupting it), and location=global with globalconfig= leaves the chosen file at mode 0666, which on a shared machine lets another local user write to it. The attacker (the author of a cloned repository or archive, or a local user who can write a shared parent directory) chooses the file but not the bytes written, and no project code runs. Version 0.41.0 no longer lets a project .npmrc select which config file --delete-prefix edits.
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The vulnerability requires local access to the device to be exploited. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights.
Limited exploitation activity has been observed. Close monitoring and planned remediation are recommended.
The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
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