{"id":"CVE-2025-57806","aliases":["EUVD-2025-26472","GHSA-4h8c-qrcq-cv5c"],"status":"published","title":"Local Deep Research's API keys are stored in plain text","description":"Local Deep Research is an AI-powered research assistant for deep, iterative research. Versions 0.2.0 through 0.6.7 stored confidential information, including API keys, in a local SQLite database without encryption. This behavior was not clearly documented outside of the database architecture page. Users were not given the ability to configure the database location, allowing anyone with access to the container or host filesystem to retrieve sensitive data in plaintext by accessing the .db file. This is fixed in version 1.0.0.","severity":{"version":"4.0","score":6.9,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-12","score":0.00073,"percentile":0.00055,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":true},"cwes":["CWE-312","CWE-522"],"published":"2025-09-02T16:38:17Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:58Z","fixes":[{"ecosystem":"PyPI","package":"local-deep-research","fixed_in":["1.0.0"],"sources":["ghsa"]}],"affected":[{"source":"ghsa","ecosystem":"PyPI","package":"local-deep-research","ranges":[{"type":"UNPARSED","raw":"\u003e 0.2.0, \u003c 1.0.0","events":[{"fixed":"1.0.0"}]}]}],"products":[{"vendor":"learningcircuit","product":"local-deep-research"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/LearningCircuit/local-deep-research/security/advisories/GHSA-4h8c-qrcq-cv5c","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/LearningCircuit/local-deep-research/pull/578","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","fix"]},{"url":"http://github.com/LearningCircuit/local-deep-research/releases/tag/v1.0.0","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/LearningCircuit/local-deep-research/commit/5a9af8e6bec2e0fbaaf9810c1398f5b429588243"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4h8c-qrcq-cv5c"},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/57xxx/CVE-2025-57806.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-57806","tags":["advisory"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2025-57806","title":"Local Deep Research's API keys are stored in plain text","description":"Local Deep Research is an AI-powered research assistant for deep, iterative research. Versions 0.2.0 through 0.6.7 stored confidential information, including API keys, in a local SQLite database without encryption. This behavior was not clearly documented outside of the database architecture page. Users were not given the ability to configure the database location, allowing anyone with access to the container or host filesystem to retrieve sensitive data in plaintext by accessing the .db file. This is fixed in version 1.0.0.","status":"published","published":"2025-09-03T00:47:24.262Z","modified":"2025-09-03T15:44:45.651Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":6.9,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-312","CWE-522"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:32:34.773122Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2025-26472","description":"Local Deep Research is an AI-powered research assistant for deep, iterative research. Versions 0.2.0 through 0.6.7 stored confidential information, including API keys, in a local SQLite database without encryption. This behavior was not clearly documented outside of the database architecture page. Users were not given the ability to configure the database location, allowing anyone with access to the container or host filesystem to retrieve sensitive data in plaintext by accessing the .db file. This is fixed in version 1.0.0.","status":"published","published":"2025-09-03T00:47:24Z","modified":"2025-09-03T15:44:45Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":6.9,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","level":"medium"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T20:31:47.847286Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-4h8c-qrcq-cv5c","title":"Local Deep Research's API keys are stored in plain text","description":"**Affected Versions:** \u003e 0.2.0 and \u003c 1.0.0 \n**Patched Versions:** \u003e= 1.0.0\n\n**Description:**\nThe library stored confidential information, including API keys, in a local SQLite database without encryption. This behavior was not clearly documented outside of the database architecture page. Users were not given the ability to configure the database location. As a result, anyone with access to the container or host filesystem could retrieve sensitive data in plaintext by accessing the `.db` file.\n\n**Impact:**\nUnauthorized access to API keys and other confidential data if the SQLite database file was exposed.\n\n**Fixed in Version 1.0.0:**\n- Database is fully encrypted\n- Database location is configurable  \n- API keys can be set via environment variables (this capability existed in earlier versions)","status":"published","published":"2025-09-02T16:38:17Z","modified":"2025-09-02T16:38:18Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":6.9,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-312"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:38:55.953734Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2025-57806","description":"Local Deep Research is an AI-powered research assistant for deep, iterative research. Versions 0.2.0 through 0.6.7 stored confidential information, including API keys, in a local SQLite database without encryption. 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