CVE-2026-82640: Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in browser-use web-ui
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.
CVE-2026-82640: Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in browser-use web-ui
Description
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.
CVSS v4.0
Score 6.8medium
Affected software
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- VulnCheck
- Date Reserved
- 2026-08-30T13:06:07.154Z
- Cvss Version
- 4.0
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- null
Threat ID: 6a943230acd9273b4997c70e
Added to database: 08/30/2026, 13:37:52 UTC
Last updated: 08/30/2026, 14:52:33 UTC
Views: 4
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