CVE-2023-34239: Gradio vulnerable to arbitrary file read and proxying of arbitrary URLs
Impact There are two separate security vulnerabilities here: (1) a security vulnerability that allows users to read arbitrary files on the machines that are running shared Gradio apps (2) the ability of users to use machines that are sharing Gradio apps to proxy arbitrary URLs Patches Both problems have been solved, please upgrade gradio to 3.34.0 or higher Workarounds Not possible to workaround except by taking…
Published Jun 9, 2023 · Updated Sep 20, 2024
Affected packages
gradio
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Affected
- < 3.34.0
- Fixed in
- 3.34.0
- Check
pip show gradio
Advisory details
From the GitHub Advisory Database (CC BY 4.0).
Impact
There are two separate security vulnerabilities here: (1) a security vulnerability that allows users to read arbitrary files on the machines that are running shared Gradio apps (2) the ability of users to use machines that are sharing Gradio apps to proxy arbitrary URLs
Patches
Both problems have been solved, please upgrade gradio to 3.34.0 or higher
Workarounds
Not possible to workaround except by taking down any shared Gradio apps
References
Relevant PRs:
- https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio/pull/4406
- https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio/pull/4370
Credited to mastomii.
References
- https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio/security/advisories/GHSA-3qqg-pgqq-3695
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-34239
- https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio/pull/4370
- https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio/pull/4406
- https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio/commit/37967617bd97615fb6f3b44e7750c0e0be58479a#diff-324a7165f5d5a8823a28b76f5653fa45f32c8144c82b2e528882c97c7eae534f
- https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio/commit/cd64130d54e678525774bbb200ef9c7166fa1543
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/gradio/PYSEC-2023-90.yaml
- https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio/commit/37967617bd97615fb6f3b44e7750c0e0be58479a
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3qqg-pgqq-3695
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