steipete summarize up to 0.15.0 Config File permission assignment

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in steipete summarize up to 0.15.0. Affected is an unknown function of the component Config File. The manipulation leads to permission assignment. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-45246. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in steipete summarize up to 0.15.0. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Config File. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a permission assignment vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-732. The product specifies permissions for a security-critical resource in a way that allows that resource to be read or modified by unintended actors. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Summarize prior to 0.15.1 contains an insecure file permission vulnerability in the refresh-free configuration rewrite path that allows local users to read sensitive credentials by exploiting default filesystem permissions. When the refresh-free path rewrites the configuration file, it creates the replacement with default process umask permissions instead of preserving the original file permissions, exposing the config file containing API keys and provider credentials to other local users on shared Unix-like systems.

The weakness was disclosed by Chia Min Jun Lennon. The advisory is shared at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-45246 since 05/11/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

Upgrading to version 0.15.1 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com. Applying the patch 9e990193650a23dab73f37d5e1964d574a44098b is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-30799). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Vendor

• steipete

Name

• summarize

Version

• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.5
• 0.6
• 0.7
• 0.8
• 0.9
• 0.10
• 0.11
• 0.12
• 0.13
• 0.14
• 0.15.0

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/steipete/summarize/

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