CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-82640
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-08-30
- Last modified
- 2026-09-10
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-312
Description
browser-use web-ui versions 2.0.0 through 3.0.0 write configured LLM API keys to disk in cleartext without encryption or access restrictions. Attackers with read access to the temporary settings directory can recover provider API keys from predictably-named JSON files.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-312 Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information weakness
References
- https://github.com/browser-use/web-ui github.com
- https://github.com/browser-use/web-ui/blob/v3.0.0/src/webui/webui_manager.py github.com
- https://github.com/browser-use/web-ui/issues/736 github.com
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/browser-use-web-ui-2.0.0-through-3.0.0-cleartext-api-key-storage www.vulncheck.com