GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-763v-5pjm-fx36 Strands Agents: Default FileSessionManager storage is world-readable on shared systems
MEDIUM
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- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- strands-agents
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-276
- Reviewed
- 2026-10-27
Affected packages
• PyPI strands-agents: < 1.48.0 → fixed in 1.48.0
Description
There is a local confidentiality issue in the default `FileSessionManager` storage behavior. By default it writes session data under `/tmp/strands/sessions` and relies on the process umask for directory and file permissions. On systems using the common `umask 022`, the session directories are `0755` and JSON files are `0644`, so other local users can read persisted agent session data.
This matters on shared developer machines, CI hosts, notebooks, jump boxes, and multi-user GPU servers. Session storage is intended to persist conversation/history/state, so it can contain prompts, model output, tool inputs/outputs, intermediate state, and secrets that pass through the agent.
Relevant code:
• `strands-py/src/strands/session/file_session_manager.py:58`: default storage path is `os.path.join(tempfile.gettempdir(), "strands/sessions")`.
• `strands-py/src/strands/session/file_session_manager.py:118`: creates parent directories without a private mode.
• `strands-py/src/strands/session/file_session_manager.py:121`: writes JSON files via normal `open(..., "w")`.
• `strands-py/src/strands/session/file_session_manager.py:131`: creates session directories without a private mode.
Local reproduction with `umask 022`:
```text
default_storage_dir= /tmp/strands/sessions
0o755 /tmp/strands/sessions
0o755 /tmp/strands/sessions/session_codex_perm_poc
0o644 /tmp/strands/sessions/session_codex_perm_poc/session.json
file_contains_secret= True
```
The fixture wrote a fake secret into the session dict to show that sensitive session fields are readable through the resulting file.
Suggested fixes:
• Use a private per-user data directory by default rather than `/tmp`, or create `/tmp/strands` and descendants with `0700`.
• Write session JSON atomically with `0600` permissions.
• Consider refusing to use an existing default storage directory if it is not owned by the current user or is group/world accessible.
• Document that callers should set `storage_dir` explicitly when they need shared storage.
This was reproduced on commit `dd7b41de38cb`.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions weakness
References
- https://github.com/strands-agents/harness-sdk/security/advisories/GHSA-763v-5pjm-fx36 web
- https://github.com/strands-agents/harness-sdk/pull/2937 web
- https://github.com/strands-agents/harness-sdk/commit/8658b9e0d57427b77b69343262184d76d8e63e8f web
- https://github.com/strands-agents/harness-sdk package
- https://github.com/strands-agents/harness-sdk/releases/tag/python/v1.48.0 web