# CVE-2024-45187: Mage AI allows deleted users to use the terminal server with admin access, leading to remote code execution

> Deleted users retain admin access to the terminal server, allowing remote code execution in the Mage AI framework.

- **Severity:** High 7.1 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 23 Aug 2024
- **Updated:** 25 Nov 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-jg95-r9xh-xw9c, PYSEC-2026-1600

## What is CVE-2024-45187?

CVE-2024-45187 is a high-severity vulnerability in mage:mage-ai, published on 23 Aug 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Guest users in the Mage AI framework that remain logged in after their accounts are deleted, are mistakenly given high privileges and specifically given access to remotely execute arbitrary code through the Mage AI terminal server

Weakness: CWE-266 (Incorrect Privilege Assignment), CWE-613 (DEPRECATED: Insufficient Session Expiration)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-45187?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including mage-ai. It affects 1 product.


| Package | Ecosystem | Affected | Fixed in |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `mage-ai` | PyPI | All versions to 0.9.73 | None |
| `mage-ai` | PyPI | All versions to 0.9.73 | None |
| `mage-ai` | PyPI | All versions to 0.9.73 | None |

Products: Mage Mage-Ai.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-45187?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-45187 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-45187 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-45187 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in mage:mage-ai

- [CVE-2024-45188](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-45188/): Mage AI file content request remote arbitrary file leak (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2024-45189](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-45189/): Mage AI git content request remote arbitrary file leak (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2024-45190](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-45190/): Mage AI pipeline interaction request remote arbitrary file leak (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2023-31143](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-31143/): Mage terminal user authentication not working properly (medium 5.9)
- [CVE-2024-8072](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8072/): Mage AI allows remote unauthenticated attackers to leak the terminal server command history of arbitrary users (medium 5.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-45187 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-45187 is a high-severity vulnerability in mage:mage-ai, published on 23 Aug 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-45187 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected packages and fixed versions:
- mage-ai (PyPI): affected all versions up to 0.9.73; no fix listed
- mage-ai (PyPI): affected all versions up to 0.9.73; no fix listed
- mage-ai (PyPI): affected all versions up to 0.9.73; no fix listed

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-45187/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-45187/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-45187
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-45187
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-45187

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-45187/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.