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Medium · 5.5 CVE-2026-48722 EUVD-2026-78578GHSA-92qf-fcph-v5wr

Nextflow: Incorrect default permissions in the nextflow auth login command

Published Sep 15, 2026 · Updated Sep 17, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
nextflow-io nextflow >= 25.09.2-edge, < 25.10.6, >= 25.11.0-edge, < 26.04.3 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven io.nextflow:nextflow >= 25.09.2-edge, < 25.10.6 25.10.6 GHSA-92qf-fcph-v5wr
Maven io.nextflow:nextflow >= 26.00.0-edge, < 26.04.3 26.04.3 GHSA-92qf-fcph-v5wr

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