spotipy — security advisory

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  "id": "d1f6c69e98ce2f3f915e68a37f31099f04bd3bc55ec1c8e840009b25395a0198",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2025-27154",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "UBUNTU-CVE-2025-27154",
    "summary": "Spotipy is a lightweight Python library for the Spotify Web API. The `CacheHandler` class creates a cache file to store the auth token. Prior to version 2.25.1, the file created has `rw-r--r--` (644) permissions by default, when it could be locked down to `rw-------` (600) permissions. This leads to overly broad exposure of the spotify auth token. If this token can be read by an attacker (another user on the machine, or a process running as another user), it can be used to perform administrative actions on the Spotify account, depending on the scope granted to the token. Version 2.25.1 tightens the cache file permissions.",
    "evidence": "osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2025-27154",
    "products": [
      {
        "name": {
          "value": "spotipy",
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          {
            "value": "2.25.1-1",
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      {
        "name": {
          "value": "spotipy",
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        "prerequisites": [],
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        "affected_versions": [
          {
            "value": "2.25.2-1",
            "evidence": "/affected/1/versions"
          },
          {
            "value": "2.26.0-1",
            "evidence": "/affected/1/versions"
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      {
        "name": {
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            "value": "2.25.1-1",
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          {
            "value": "2.25.2-1",
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          }
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      }
    ],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
      "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2025-27154",
      "aliases": [
        "UBUNTU-CVE-2025-27154"
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      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        },
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V4",
          "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N"
        },
        {
          "type": "Ubuntu",
          "score": "medium"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
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            {
              "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
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          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "spotipy",
            "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/spotipy?arch=source&distro=questing",
            "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:25.10"
          },
          "versions": [
            "2.25.1-1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
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          },
          "ecosystem_specific": {
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              {
                "binary_name": "python3-spotipy",
                "binary_version": "2.25.1-1"
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          "package": {
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            "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/spotipy?arch=source&distro=stonking",
            "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:26.10"
          },
          "versions": [
            "2.25.2-1",
            "2.26.0-1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
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          },
          "ecosystem_specific": {
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              {
                "binary_name": "python3-spotipy",
                "binary_version": "2.26.0-1"
              }
            ]
          }
        },
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          "package": {
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            "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/spotipy?arch=source&distro=resolute",
            "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:26.04:LTS"
          },
          "versions": [
            "2.25.1-1",
            "2.25.2-1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
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          },
          "ecosystem_specific": {
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              {
                "binary_name": "python3-spotipy",
                "binary_version": "2.25.2-1"
              }
            ]
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-17T12:56:49.586134326Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "upstream": [
        "CVE-2025-27154"
      ],
      "references": [
        "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-27154",
        "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-27154",
        "https://github.com/spotipy-dev/spotipy/blob/master/spotipy/cache_handler.py#L93-L98",
        "https://github.com/spotipy-dev/spotipy/commit/1ca453f6ef87a2a9e9876f52b6cb38d13532ccf2",
        "https://github.com/spotipy-dev/spotipy/releases/tag/2.25.1",
        "https://github.com/spotipy-dev/spotipy/security/advisories/GHSA-pwhh-q4h6-w599"
      ]
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2025-27154",
        "evidence": "/upstream"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 356404,
  "published_at": "2025-02-27T14:15:00+00:00"
}