CVE-2026-53781: @steipete/summarize is Vulnerable to Disk Exhaustion via Crafted Media Responses
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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.
References
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-q9xm-f36c-xm3q
- github.com/steipete/summarize/commit/14de194c24c5e0fba4bdb4a6f7766eb6ea3ed750
- github.com/steipete/summarize/pull/237
- github.com/steipete/summarize/releases/tag/v0.17.0
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53781
- www.vulncheck.com/advisories/summarize-disk-exhaustion-via-uncapped-media-download
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