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THREAT OPSThreat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-82640 (MEDIUM 5.5) — 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.

[NVD] CVE-2026-82640 (MEDIUM 5.5) — 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.

mednvdPublished 2026-08-30

CVE-2026-82640 CVSS: 5.5 MEDIUM Published: 2026-08-30T14:17:03.890

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.

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Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-82640