medium4.3
CVE-2026-53781
Summarize before 0.17.0 contains a resource exhaustion vulnerability that allows remote attackers to cause disk exhaustion by serving media responses that bypa…
Impact
Summarize before 0.17.0 contains a resource exhaustion vulnerability that allows remote attackers to cause disk exhaustion by serving media responses that bypass the enforced size limit through missing or misreported Content-Length headers, chunked transfer encoding, or failed HEAD requests. Attackers who control a podcast feed or media URL can stream an unbounded response to local storage via the temp-file download path, exhausting disk or system resources on the host running the CLI.
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm | @steipete/summarize-core | < 0.17.0 | 0.17.0 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- GitHub advisory
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q9xm-f36c-xm3q
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53781
- https://github.com/steipete/summarize/pull/237
- https://github.com/steipete/summarize/commit/14de194c24c5e0fba4bdb4a6f7766eb6ea3ed750
- https://github.com/steipete/summarize/releases/tag/v0.17.0
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/summarize-disk-exhaustion-via-uncapped-media-download