What is CVE-2026-16735?

CVE-2026-16735 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Release-it Conventional-changelog, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2026-07-23.

How severe is CVE-2026-16735?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

RCE in Release-it Conventional-changelog

CVE-2026-16735

A security vulnerability has been detected in release-it conventional-changelog up to 11.0.1. This affects the function writeChangelog of the file index.js of the component Changelog File Handler. Such manipulation of the argument infile l…

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L.

Affected products

Release-it Conventional-changelog — versions 11.0.0, 11.0.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

cna@vuldb.com (release-notes, product)
cna@vuldb.com (release-notes, issue-tracking, exploit)
cna@vuldb.com (third-party-advisory)
cna@vuldb.com (third-party-advisory)
cna@vuldb.com (technical-description, vdb-entry)
cna@vuldb.com (signature, permissions-required)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-16735?: CVE-2026-16735 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Release-it Conventional-changelog, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2026-07-23.
How severe is CVE-2026-16735?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.