Mlflow
CVE-2023-6909
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V5 - File Handling Path traversal prevention
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| Impact | CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, no user interaction not required. Public proof-of-concept exploit code is available. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | This vulnerability can be exploited remotely over the network. Successful exploitation could compromise the high-severity affected system. |
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Path Traversal: '\..\filename' in GitHub repository mlflow/mlflow prior to 2.9.2. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.
RemediationAI
A vendor patch is available. Apply the latest security update as soon as possible. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
Affects your stack
Affects 1 package in pypi
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified under CWE-29. Path Traversal: '\..\filename' in GitHub repository mlflow/mlflow prior to 2.9.2. Affected products include: Lfprojects Mlflow. Version information: prior to 2.9.2..
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
Path Traversal: '\..\filename' in GitHub repository mlflow/mlflow prior to 2.9.2.
Blast Radius
ecosystem impact- 10 pypi packages depend on mlflow (10 direct, 0 indirect)
Ecosystem-wide dependent count for version 2.9.2.
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Attack Technique
Path traversal exploits occur when applications use user-controlled input to construct file system paths without proper validation.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
Server-side request forgery in MLflow before 3.15.0 lets remote unauthenticated attackers coerce the server into making
A path traversal vulnerability exists in mlflow/mlflow version 2.15.1. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerabilit
Absolute Path Traversal in GitHub repository mlflow/mlflow prior to 2.5.0. Rated critical severity (CVSS 10.0), this vul
MLflow's FastAPI job endpoints bypass basic-auth entirely, allowing network attackers to submit and execute jobs without
A malicious user could use this issue to get command execution on the vulnerable machine and get access to data & models
A malicious user could use this issue to access internal HTTP(s) servers and in the worst case (ie: aws instance) it cou
An attacker is able to arbitrarily create an account in MLflow bypassing any authentication requirment. Rated critical s
An attacker can overwrite any file on the server hosting MLflow without any authentication. Rated critical severity (CVS
Path Traversal: '\..\filename' in GitHub repository mlflow/mlflow prior to 2.3.1. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), th
Path Traversal: '\..\filename' in GitHub repository mlflow/mlflow prior to 2.2.1. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), th
Insufficient sanitization in MLflow leads to XSS when running a recipe that uses an untrusted dataset. Rated critical se
Insufficient sanitization in MLflow leads to XSS when running an untrusted recipe. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.6), t
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