CVE-2024-47165
Published: 10 October 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-47165 is a medium-severity Improper Authorization (CWE-285) vulnerability in Gradio Project Gradio. Its CVSS base score is 6.9 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Drive-by Compromise (T1189); ranked at the 37.7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
This vulnerability is AI-related — categorised as Other Platforms; in the Protocol-Specific Risks risk domain; MITRE ATLAS techniques in scope: AI Model Inference API Access (AML.T0040), Obtain Capabilities (AML.T0016), Manipulate AI Model (AML.T0018).
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-0069
Vulnerability details
Gradio is an open-source Python package designed for quick prototyping. This vulnerability relates to **CORS origin validation accepting a null origin**. When a Gradio server is deployed locally, the `localhost_aliases` variable includes "null" as a valid origin. This allows attackers…
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to make unauthorized requests from sandboxed iframes or other sources with a null origin, potentially leading to data theft, such as user authentication tokens or uploaded files. This impacts users running Gradio locally, especially those using basic authentication. Users are advised to upgrade to `gradio>=5.0` to address this issue. As a workaround, users can manually modify the `localhost_aliases` list in their local Gradio deployment to exclude "null" as a valid origin. By removing this value, the Gradio server will no longer accept requests from sandboxed iframes or sources with a null origin, mitigating the potential for exploitation.
- CWE(s)
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- AI Category
- Other Platforms
- Risk Domain
- Protocol-Specific Risks
- OWASP Top 10 for LLMs 2025
- None mapped
- Classification Reason
- Gradio is an open-source Python package for quick prototyping of web interfaces, primarily used in AI/ML for creating shareable demos of machine learning models, fitting the 'Other Platforms' category as a deployment and UI platform for AI applications.
Related Threats
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Why these techniques?
CORS misconfiguration accepts null origins from sandboxed iframes, enabling drive-by compromise (T1189) via malicious websites exploiting the local Gradio server to steal authentication tokens and uploaded files through exploitation for credential access (T1212).
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MITRE ATLAS techniques
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
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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.
Documented procedures facilitate correct implementation and ongoing management of authorization decisions.
Periodic reviews identify and correct flaws in authorization decisions or enforcement.
The control's documentation requirement reduces improper authorization by ensuring only mission-justified actions bypass authentication.
Establishing permitted attributes and values, plus auditing changes, ensures authorization decisions are based on correctly managed policy data.
Explicitly mandates authorizing remote access types before permitting connections, directly mitigating improper authorization.
The control explicitly requires authorization of each wireless access type prior to permitting connections.
Mandating explicit authorization of mobile device connections reduces the risk of improper authorization decisions for system access.
Specifying access authorizations for each account and requiring approvals for account requests enforces proper authorization decisions.