AVID-2026-R1304

Description

Make the /file secure against file traversal attacks (CVE-2023-51449)

Details

Gradio is an open-source Python package that allows you to quickly build a demo or web application for your machine learning model, API, or any arbitary Python function. Versions of gradio prior to 4.11.0 contained a vulnerability in the /file route which made them susceptible to file traversal attacks in which an attacker could access arbitrary files on a machine running a Gradio app with a public URL (e.g. if the demo was created with share=True, or on Hugging Face Spaces) if they knew the path of files to look for. This issue has been patched in version 4.11.0.

Reason for inclusion in AVID: CVE-2023-51449 concerns Gradio, a Python package used to build ML demos/apps. The vulnerability in the /file route allows file traversal to access arbitrary files on a Gradio app with a public URL, affecting software dependencies/frameworks used in AI pipelines. This is a software supply-chain issue (library/component used to build AI systems) and constitutes a security vulnerability (CWE-22). The report includes affected versions, patch information, and references (NVD, GitHub advisories) providing sufficient signal. Therefore, it should be kept for AVID curation.

References

• NVD entry
• https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio/security/advisories/GHSA-6qm2-wpxq-7qh2
• https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio/commit/1b9d4234d6c25ef250d882c7b90e1f4039ed2d76
• https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio/commit/7ba8c5da45b004edd12c0460be9222f5b5f5f055

Affected or Relevant Artifacts

• Developer: gradio-app
• Deployer: gradio-app
• Artifact Details:

Impact

AVID Taxonomy Categorization

• Risk domains: Security
• SEP subcategories: S0100: Software Vulnerability
• Lifecycle stages: L06: Deployment

CVSS

CWE

Other information

• Report Type: Advisory
• Credits:
• Date Reported: 2023-12-22
• Version: 0.3.3
• AVID Entry