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SCA: security update for local-deep-research (GHSA-fj2m-qvh9-jq4q)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 441740

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Local Deep Research is an AI-powered research assistant for deep, iterative research. Prior to 1.6.0,
 PDFService._markdown_to_html() constructs an HTML document by interpolating user-controlled values —
 specifically title (sourced from research.title or research.query) and metadata key-value pairs — directly
 into an f-string without any HTML escaping. An authenticated attacker can craft a research query
 containing HTML special characters to inject arbitrary HTML tags into the document processed by WeasyPrint
 during PDF export. This injection can be chained to trigger a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF),
 bypassing the application's existing SSRF defenses in ssrf_validator.py. This vulnerability is fixed in
 1.6.0. (CVE-2026-43979)

Solution

Update the local-deep-research library and its related packages to version 1.6.0 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fj2m-qvh9-jq4q

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 441740

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 5/12/2026

Updated: 6/19/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-43979

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/11/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/11/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-43979