CVE-2024-51751: Gradio file preview components allow reading arbitrary files on the server

Summary

CVE-2024-51751 affects Gradio, an open-source Python package for building demo and web applications. When the File or UploadButton components are used to preview file content, an attacker with access to the application can abuse them to read arbitrary files from the application server, which is a path traversal flaw (CWE-22).

Mitigation

This issue has been addressed in release version 5.5.0, and users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

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.

• gradioPyPILLM dependency since 2023-03-14 · 11 tracked dependents

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