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CVE-2025-57806: Local Deep Research's API keys are stored in plain text

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v4.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-09-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-312

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

• LearningCircuit local-deep-research: from 0.2.0, < 1.0.0

References

• http://github.com/LearningCircuit/local-deep-research/releases/tag/v1.0.0
• https://github.com/LearningCircuit/local-deep-research/pull/578
• https://github.com/LearningCircuit/local-deep-research/security/advisories/GHSA-4h8c-qrcq-cv5c

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