pnpm 5 End of Life Date
pnpm 5 end-of-life date, support status, and CVE risk. Data from endoflife.date and official vendor documentation.
pnpm 5 was released on May 27, 2020 and support ended on April 29, 2022 — a supported lifespan of 1 year and 11 months, in line with the 2 years median for pnpm releases. The last patch it will ever receive is 5.18.11, published September 16, 2021 — 8 months before support ended. It has been without security patches for 4 years and 3 months. 5 newer pnpm releases have shipped since.
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When pnpm 5 reaches end of life, the maintainers stop issuing security patches for this version. CVEs discovered after the EOL date are publicly disclosed on the National Vulnerability Database with no patch available. Exploit code frequently appears on GitHub within days of disclosure.
The CVE blind spot: Most vulnerability scanners check for known CVEs but do not flag the ongoing accumulation of unpatched vulnerabilities in EOL software versions. Running pnpm 5 past its EOL date creates a permanently growing attack surface that standard security tooling will not surface.
Migrate to pnpm 11 or implement compensating controls — network segmentation, enhanced monitoring, restricted access — while migration is underway.