CVE-2026-45242 (GCVE-0-2026-45242)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-18 18:52 – Updated: 2026-10-08 15:22 X_Open Source
VLAI
Title
Summarize < 0.15.1 Path Traversal via slidesDir Parameter
Summary
Summarize prior to 0.15.1 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the /v1/summarize daemon endpoint that allows authenticated callers to write files to arbitrary directories by supplying an absolute path or directory traversal sequence in the slidesDir request parameter. Attackers can exploit this to write slide_*.png and slides.json files to any writable directory and subsequently delete matching files at the specified location through repeat extraction.
Severity
7.1 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
7.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-05-18 19:09 UTC
CWE
Assigner
VulnCheck CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard B 84/100 over 6250 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
steipete summarize Affected: 0 , < 0.15.1 (semver)
Unaffected: ec8efd63295656fbfe8743620179c489bc5a242f (git)
guessed Create a notification for this product.
Date Public
2026-05-11 00:00
Credits
Chia Min Jun Lennon
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    Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.