CVE-2026-82640 (GCVE-0-2026-82640)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-30 13:23
Modified
2026-08-31 18:52
Severity ?
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
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-312 - Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
browser-use web-ui Version: 2.0.0   ≤ 3.0.0
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