Tursodatabase Turso CLI up to 1.0.25 Settings Persistence settings.json permission

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Tursodatabase Turso CLI up to 1.0.25. It has been rated as problematic. This impacts an unknown function of the file settings.json of the component Settings Persistence. Performing a manipulation results in permission. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-48790. The attack needs to be approached locally. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Tursodatabase Turso CLI up to 1.0.25. This affects an unknown function of the file settings.json of the component Settings Persistence. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a permission vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-275. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Turso CLI is the command line interface (CLI) to the open-source database Turso. Versions prior to 1.0.26 persist the user's Turso platform JWT to `settings.json` using Viper's default `configPermissions` of `0o644`, leaving the credential file world-readable on standard Linux and macOS systems. Any other local UID on the host can read the file and recover the platform JWT, which grants full Turso platform access scoped to the user's organizations. Version 1.0.26 patches the issue.

The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-48790 since 05/22/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1222 for this issue.

By approaching the search of inurl:settings.json it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

Upgrading to version 1.0.26 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Tursodatabase

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• Turso CLI

Version

• 1.0.0
• 1.0.1
• 1.0.2
• 1.0.3
• 1.0.4
• 1.0.5
• 1.0.6
• 1.0.7
• 1.0.8
• 1.0.9
• 1.0.10
• 1.0.11
• 1.0.12
• 1.0.13
• 1.0.14
• 1.0.15
• 1.0.16
• 1.0.17
• 1.0.18
• 1.0.19
• 1.0.20
• 1.0.21
• 1.0.22
• 1.0.23
• 1.0.24
• 1.0.25

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