MEDIUM

CVE-2026-48722

2026-09-15 CVSS v3.1

CVSS

5.5

Description

Nextflow is a DSL for data-driven computational pipelines. From 25.09.2-edge until 25.10.6 and 26.04.3, nextflow auth login writes Seqera Platform OIDC bearer tokens to ${NXF_HOME:-~/.nextflow}/seqera-auth.config through AuthCommandImpl.writeConfig in plugins/nf-tower/src/main/io/seqera/tower/plugin/auth/AuthCommandImpl.groovy without setting restrictive file permissions, allowing the default umask 022 to create the file with mode 0644. On a multi-user POSIX host, a local user who can traverse the victim's home directory can read seqera-auth.config and impersonate the victim against Seqera Platform within the token's scope. Single-user systems and headless CI runners that do not use the interactive login flow are not affected. This issue is fixed in 25.10.6 and 26.04.3.

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions

CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment

EPSS Score

0.1%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

1th percentile

References

https://github.com/nextflow-io/nextflow/commit/41a5f24afec8a6e9769a24cae5e08b5462fbfdc1 https://github.com/nextflow-io/nextflow/commit/a2813c610a3e7f13d7a0a0b1b543b7ad47586eaa https://github.com/nextflow-io/nextflow/pull/7182 https://github.com/nextflow-io/nextflow/releases/tag/v25.10.6 https://github.com/nextflow-io/nextflow/releases/tag/v26.04.3 https://github.com/nextflow-io/nextflow/security/advisories/GHSA-92qf-fcph-v5wr

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