CVE-2024-8859: mlflow/mlflow path traversal in dbfs service via URL file protocol

Summary

CVE-2024-8859 is a path traversal flaw in mlflow/mlflow version 2.15.1. When the dbfs service is configured and mounted to a local directory, concatenating the URL directly into the file protocol enables arbitrary file read, because only the URL's path part is checked while query and parameters are not handled. The issue is tracked as CWE-29 and was published to NVD on 03/20/2025.

Mitigation

Patch: https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/commit/7791b8cdd595f21b5f179c7b17e4b5eb5cbbe654

Affected packages in the Exposure Registry

Matched by package name and ecosystem. Each entry shows whether the package delegates to a language model and how many tracked packages depend on it.

• mlflowPyPILLM dependency since 2024-05-30 · 17 tracked dependents

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