CVE-2021-43831
Description
Gradio is an open source framework for building interactive machine learning models and demos. In versions prior to 2.5.0 there is a vulnerability that affects anyone who creates and publicly shares Gradio interfaces. File paths are not restricted and users who receive a Gradio link can access any files on the host computer if they know the file names or file paths. This is limited only by the host operating system. Paths are opened in read only mode. The problem has been patched in gradio 2.5.0.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio/security/advisories/GHSA-rhq2-3vr9-6mcr
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-43831
- https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio/commit/41bd3645bdb616e1248b2167ca83636a2653f781
- https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/gradio/PYSEC-2021-873.yaml
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.