CVE-2024-42474 Streamlit Path Traversal Security Vulnerability on Windows

What is CVE-2024-42474?

CVE-2024-42474 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in streamlit, published on 12 Aug 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Streamlit is a data oriented application development framework for python. Snowflake Streamlit open source addressed a security vulnerability via the static file sharing feature. Users of hosted Streamlit app(s) on Windows were vulnerable to a path traversal vulnerability when the static file sharing feature is enabled. An attacker could utilize the vulnerability to leak the password hash of the Windows user running Streamlit. The vulnerability was patched on Jul 25, 2024, as part of Streamlit open source version 1.37.0. The vulnerability only affects Windows.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-42474?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including streamlit. It affects 1 product.

Products include Snowflake Streamlit.

How do I fix CVE-2024-42474?

Upgrade streamlit to 1.37.0 or later.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2024-42474 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-42474 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in streamlit

• CVE-2022-35918 Streamlit directory traversal vulnerability Medium 6.5
• CVE-2023-27494 Streamlit Cross-site Scripting vulnerability Medium 5.9
• CVE-2026-33682 Streamlit on Windows has Unauthenticated SSRF Vulnerability (NTLM Credential Exposure) Medium 4.7
• CVE-2026-10804 Streamlit Palette hashing.py weak hash Low 2.0

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-rxff-vr5r-8cj5, PYSEC-2024-153.