Vulnerability · Published Sep 3, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M
CVE-2025-57806Local Deep Research's API keys are stored in plain text
Medium 6.9
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in local-deep-research from LearningCircuit. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.1% (higher than 0% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official 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.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| LearningCircuit | local-deep-research | >= 0.2.0, < 1.0.0 |
Weakness: CWE-312, CWE-522 · 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