CVE-2024-5185 Data Poisoning in EmbedAI

High 8.3 Published Updated

Attackers can exploit CSRF to trick users into uploading malicious data, poisoning the EmbedAI language model.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
A user has to click or open something
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2024-5185?

CVE-2024-5185 is a high-severity vulnerability in SamurAIGPT EmbedAI, published on 29 May 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The EmbedAI application is susceptible to security issues that enable Data Poisoning attacks. This weakness could result in the application becoming compromised, leading to unauthorized entries or data poisoning attacks, which are delivered by a CSRF vulnerability due to the absence of a secure session management implementation and weak CORS policies weakness. An attacker can direct a user to a malicious webpage that exploits a CSRF vulnerability within the EmbedAI application. By leveraging this CSRF vulnerability, the attacker can deceive the user into inadvertently uploading and integrating incorrect data into the application’s language model.

Weakness: CWE-352

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-5185?

How do I fix CVE-2024-5185?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-5185 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2024-5185 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-5185 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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