Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-51751

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 06 November 2024

Published
06 November 2024
Modified
26 August 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:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0027 51.3th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-51751 is a medium-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Gradio Project Gradio. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Data from Local System (T1005); ranked in the top 48.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

This vulnerability is AI-related — categorised as Other Platforms; in the Privacy and Disclosure risk domain; MITRE ATLAS techniques in scope: Obtain Capabilities (AML.T0016), Exfiltration via AI Inference API (AML.T0024).

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Gradio is an open-source Python package designed to enable quick builds of a demo or web application. If File or UploadButton components are used as a part of Gradio application to preview file content, an attacker with access to the…

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application might abuse these components to read arbitrary files from the application server. This issue has been addressed in release version 5.5.0 and all users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

CWE(s)
CWE-22

AI Security AnalysisAI

AI Category
Other Platforms
Risk Domain
Privacy and Disclosure
OWASP Top 10 for LLMs 2025
None mapped
Classification Reason
Gradio is an open-source Python package for building web-based demos and interfaces, commonly used for machine learning and AI model demonstrations, fitting under AI platforms.

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.
attack.mitre.org →
T1003.008 /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow Credential Access
Adversaries may attempt to dump the contents of <code>/etc/passwd</code> and <code>/etc/shadow</code> to enable offline password cracking.
attack.mitre.org →
T1552.001 Credentials In Files Credential Access
Adversaries may search local file systems and remote file shares for files containing insecurely stored credentials.
attack.mitre.org →
T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
attack.mitre.org →
Why these techniques?

Arbitrary local file read via crafted API requests to Gradio File/UploadButton components (e.g., /etc/passwd PoC) enables data collection from local system (T1005), credential discovery/dumping from files like /etc/passwd/shadow (T1003.008, T1081, T1552.001), and exploitation of public-facing web apps (T1190).

MITRE ATLAS TechniquesAI

MITRE ATLAS techniques

AML.T0016: Obtain CapabilitiesAML.T0024: Exfiltration via AI Inference API

Affected Assets

gradio project
gradio
5.0.0 — 5.5.0

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