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High · 8.4 CVE-2025-27154 EUVD-2025-5469GHSA-pwhh-q4h6-w599PYSEC-2026-1936

Spotipy's cache file, containing spotify auth token, is created with overly broad permissions

Published Feb 27, 2025 · Updated Feb 27, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Spotipy is a lightweight Python library for the Spotify Web API. The `CacheHandler` class creates a cache file to store the auth token. Prior to version 2.25.1, the file created has `rw-r--r--` (644) permissions by default, when it could be locked down to `rw-------` (600) permissions. This leads to overly broad exposure of the spotify auth token. If this token can be read by an attacker (another user on the machine, or a process running as another user), it can be used to perform administrative actions on the Spotify account, depending on the scope granted to the token. Version 2.25.1 tightens the cache file permissions.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
spotipy-dev spotipy < 2.25.1 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 spotipy 2.25.1-1 —
Debian 13 spotipy 2.25.1-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 spotipy No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS spotipy No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 spotipy No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed python-spotipy 2.25.1-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:14847-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI spotipy < 2.25.1 2.25.1 GHSA-pwhh-q4h6-w599

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