vulnerability / NVI-00017830 / Revision 1
turso-cli persists Turso platform JWT with world-readable (0o644) file permissions
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github.com/tursodatabase/turso-cli
source listed<= 1.0.25
### Summary `turso-cli` persists the user's Turso platform JWT to `settings.json` using Viper's default `configPermissions` of `0o644`, leaving the credential file world-readable on standard Linux and macOS systems. Any other local UID on the host can read the file and recover the platform JWT, which grants full Turso platform access scoped to the user's organizations. ### Impact The token in `settings.json` grants the holder full Turso platform access — create or destroy databases, rotate credentials, exfiltrate data, change billing settings — for any organization the user belongs to. Because the file is world-readable, the credential is reachable by: - Cron jobs or daemons running as a different system user on the same host - Sandboxed CI runners with a mounted home directory - Containers with a bind-mounted host home - Co-tenants on a shared multi-user developer or jumpbox host The file path resolves through `configdir.LocalConfig("turso")`: - macOS: `~/Library/Application Support/turso/settings.json` - Linux: `~/.config/turso/settings.json` (or `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/turso/settings.json`) It contains the platform JWT in plaintext JSON alongside `organization` and `username`
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- GHSA-57f6-pvx8-hwj6 ↗
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