Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-32023

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 16 April 2024

Published
16 April 2024
Modified
08 September 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0016 37.4th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-32023 is a medium-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Bmaltais Kohya Ss. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Data from Local System (T1005); ranked at the 37.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

This vulnerability is AI-related — categorised as Computer Vision; in the Other ATLAS/OWASP Terms risk domain; MITRE ATLAS techniques in scope: AI Supply Chain Compromise (AML.T0010), Exfiltration via AI Inference API (AML.T0024), External Harms (AML.T0048).

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Kohya_ss is a GUI for Kohya's Stable Diffusion trainers. Kohya_ss is vulnerable to a path injection in the `common_gui.py` `find_and_replace` function. This vulnerability is fixed in 23.1.5.

CWE(s)
CWE-22

AI Security AnalysisAI

AI Category
Computer Vision
Risk Domain
Other ATLAS/OWASP Terms
OWASP Top 10 for LLMs 2025
None mapped
Classification Reason
Kohya_ss is a GUI for Kohya's Stable Diffusion trainers, where Stable Diffusion is a deep learning model for image generation, which falls under Computer Vision.

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1005 Data from Local System Collection
Adversaries may search local system sources, such as file systems, configuration files, local databases, virtual machine files, or process memory, to find files of interest and sensitive data prior to Exfiltration.
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T1083 File and Directory Discovery Discovery
Adversaries may enumerate files and directories or may search in specific locations of a host or network share for certain information within a file system.
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Why these techniques?

Path injection vulnerability (CWE-22 Path Traversal) in common_gui.py find_and_replace enables arbitrary file and directory access outside intended paths, facilitating local data collection (T1005) and file/directory discovery (T1083).

MITRE ATLAS TechniquesAI

MITRE ATLAS techniques

AML.T0010: AI Supply Chain CompromiseAML.T0024: Exfiltration via AI Inference APIAML.T0048: External Harms

Affected Assets

bmaltais
kohya ss
22.6.1 — 24.0.1

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-22

Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.

References