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browser-use web-ui 2.0.0 through 3.0.0 Cleartext API Key Storage

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

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.

Announced Source revision 1
Original source ↗

CVE-2026-82640

Primary source · Revision 1

Imported from structured advisory data. Source references identify upstream records or fields; verify affected versions and your deployed configuration.

Security context

Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-82640

web-ui

Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product

Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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Prerequisites
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Structured affected-version data

Original package identities and version rules from this source.

[
  {
    "vendor": "browser-use",
    "product": "web-ui",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "2.0.0",
        "versionType": "semver",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "3.0.0"
      }
    ],
    "packageURL": "pkg:github/browser-use/web-ui",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected"
  }
]
Related CVEs
CVE-2026-82640

Source reference: /cveMetadata/cveId

Publisher severity

medium

Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics

Event
#1549 · Revision 1
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