CVE-2026-45242

HIGH

Summarize < 0.15.1 Path Traversal via slidesDir Parameter

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.1
EPSS 0.0040
EPSS Percentile 31.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-862
Status published
Products (3)
steipete/summarize < 0.15.1 (2 CPE variants)
steipete/summarize 0 - 0.15.0npm
steipete/summarize ec8efd63295656fbfe8743620179c489bc5a242f
Published May 18, 2026
Tracked Since May 19, 2026