MEDIUM 5.5 NVD
CVE-2026-48722
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 t
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/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
This medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.5 was published on 2026-09-15 via NVD.
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