Summarize < 0.15.1 Path Traversal via slidesDir Parameter_CVE-2026-45242

7.1 / 10

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

Description

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.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-45242

Source VulnCheck

Published May 18, 2026 at 18:52

Affected Product

Vendor steipete

Product summarize

Affected Versions steipete summarize 0

CWE Classification

CWE-862

References

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