CVE-2026-45242
Summarize contains a path traversal vulnerability
7.1
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.07%
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.
How to fix CVE-2026-45242
To remediate CVE-2026-45242, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 0.15.0 or later
Is CVE-2026-45242 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 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 |