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AI agent vulnerability · Gradio

CVE-2024-47870: Gradio has a race condition in update_root_in_config may redirect user traffic

highCVSS 4.0 8.8 · 3.1 7.0GHSA-xh2x-3mrm-fwqm

Impact What kind of vulnerability is it? Who is impacted? This vulnerability involves a race condition in the updaterootinconfig function, allowing an attacker to modify the root URL used by the Gradio frontend to communicate with the backend. By exploiting this flaw, an attacker can redirect user traffic to a malicious server.

Published Oct 10, 2024 · Updated Jan 21, 2025

Affected packages

gradio

Ecosystem
PyPI
Affected
< 5.0.0
Fixed in
5.0.0
Check
pip show gradio

Advisory details

From the GitHub Advisory Database (CC BY 4.0).

Impact

What kind of vulnerability is it? Who is impacted?

This vulnerability involves a race condition in the update_root_in_config function, allowing an attacker to modify the root URL used by the Gradio frontend to communicate with the backend. By exploiting this flaw, an attacker can redirect user traffic to a malicious server. This could lead to the interception of sensitive data such as authentication credentials or uploaded files. This impacts all users who connect to a Gradio server, especially those exposed to the internet, where malicious actors could exploit this race condition.

Patches

Yes, please upgrade to gradio>=5 to address this issue.

Credited to ahpaleus, Vasco-jofra.

References

How this page is made: the data panel comes from the GitHub Advisory Database, CISA’s KEV catalog, the NVD and FIRST EPSS, and updates twice a day. No analysis has been written for this entry yet. Methodology

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