AI Sec Watch

CVE-2024-6577 is a vulnerability in PyTorch Serve where a script called 'upload_results_to_s3.sh' references an Amazon S3 bucket (a cloud storage service) without verifying that the script's creators actually own or control it, potentially allowing unauthorized access to sensitive data stored in that bucket.

Dify version 0.10.1 contains a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability, which is a weakness where an attacker tricks a server into making requests to unintended targets. Through the 'Create Custom Tool' REST API endpoint, attackers can manipulate the URL parameter to make the victim's server access unauthorized web resources using the server's own credentials.

A ReDoS (regular expression denial of service, where a poorly designed search pattern can be exploited to consume excessive computer processing power) vulnerability was found in the huggingface/transformers library version 4.46.3, specifically in code that processes text tokens. An attacker could send specially crafted input that causes the regex to work inefficiently, using up all the CPU and crashing the application.

A vulnerability in the LangChainLLM class (a component for running language models in the llama_index library) version v0.12.5 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS, where a system becomes unresponsive). If a thread (a lightweight process running code in parallel) terminates unexpectedly before executing the language model prediction, the code lacks error handling and enters an infinite loop (code that never stops repeating), which can be triggered by providing incorrectly typed input.

A flaw in the Gradio application (version git 67e4044) on Windows allows attackers to bypass security protections and read files that should be blocked. The vulnerability exploits NTFS Alternate Data Streams (ADS, a Windows feature that lets files have hidden data attached to them) by using special syntax like 'C:/tmp/secret.txt::$DATA' to access blocked files that would normally be restricted.

CVE-2024-12065 is a local file inclusion vulnerability (a flaw that lets attackers read files they shouldn't have access to) in the LLaVA project at a specific code version. An attacker can request multiple crafted messages to a server and access any file on the system because the gradio web UI component (the interface users interact with) doesn't properly check user inputs for malicious content.

CVE-2024-12055 is a vulnerability in Ollama versions 0.3.14 and earlier that allows an attacker to upload a malicious gguf model file (a type of AI model format), which causes the server to crash when processing it. This is a Denial of Service attack (making a service unavailable), and the underlying issue is an out-of-bounds read (attempting to access memory locations that are outside the intended range) in the gguf.go file.

vllm version v0.6.2 has a vulnerability in its MessageQueue.dequeue() function that uses pickle.loads (a Python method that reconstructs objects from serialized data) to process data directly from network sockets without validation. An attacker can send a malicious serialized payload that causes RCE (remote code execution, where an attacker runs commands on a target system), allowing them to execute arbitrary code on a victim's machine.

CVE-2024-11037 is a path traversal vulnerability (a flaw where an attacker bypasses restrictions to access files outside the intended directory) in the gpt_academic project that allows attackers to read the config.py file containing sensitive data like OpenAI API keys by accessing a specific URL with an absolute file path, and it affects Windows systems.