CVE-2026-48722

medium

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.

References

https://github.com/nextflow-io/nextflow/security/advisories/GHSA-92qf-fcph-v5wr

https://github.com/nextflow-io/nextflow/releases/tag/v26.04.3

https://github.com/nextflow-io/nextflow/releases/tag/v25.10.6

https://github.com/nextflow-io/nextflow/pull/7182

https://github.com/nextflow-io/nextflow/commit/a2813c610a3e7f13d7a0a0b1b543b7ad47586eaa

https://github.com/nextflow-io/nextflow/commit/41a5f24afec8a6e9769a24cae5e08b5462fbfdc1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-15

Updated: 2026-09-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.001