CVE-2026-45242
HIGH7.1EPSS 0.07%Summarize contains a path traversal vulnerability
Published: 5/18/2026Modified: 5/29/2026
Also known as:GHSA-8jr4-6r33-phwm
Description
Summarize prior to 0.15.0 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.
Affected packages (1)
- npm/@steipete/summarizefrom 0, < 0.15.0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | 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 |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L |
References (7)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-45242
- PATCHhttps://github.com/steipete/summarize
- WEBhttps://github.com/steipete/summarize/commit/ec8efd63295656fbfe8743620179c489bc5a242f
- WEBhttps://github.com/steipete/summarize/pull/220
- WEBhttps://github.com/steipete/summarize/releases/tag/v0.15.1
- WEBhttps://github.com/steipete/summarize/releases/tag/v0.15.2
- WEBhttps://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/summarize-path-traversal-via-slidesdir-parameter