# CVE-2024-53995: GHSL-2024-288: SickChill open redirect in login

> An authenticated attacker can exploit an open redirect in SickChill's login endpoint to redirect users to arbitrary malicious destinations.

- **Severity:** Low 1.9 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L/E:P`)
- **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:** 8 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 12 Feb 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-6gf2-ffq8-gcww, PYSEC-2026-1920

## What is CVE-2024-53995?

CVE-2024-53995 is a low-severity vulnerability in sickchill, published on 8 Jan 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

SickChill is an automatic video library manager for TV shows. A user-controlled `login` endpoint's `next_` parameter takes arbitrary content. Prior to commit c7128a8946c3701df95c285810eb75b2de18bf82, an authenticated attacker may use this to redirect the user to arbitrary destinations, leading to open redirect. Commit c7128a8946c3701df95c285810eb75b2de18bf82 changes the login page to redirect to `settings.DEFAULT_PAGE` instead of to the `next` parameter.

Weakness: CWE-601 (URL Redirection to Untrusted Site)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-53995?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including sickchill.


| Package | Ecosystem | Affected | Fixed in |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `sickchill` | PyPI | All versions to 2024.3.1 | None |
| `sickchill` | PyPI | All versions to 2024.3.1 | None |
| `sickchill` | PyPI | All versions to 2024.3.1 | None |

## How do I fix CVE-2024-53995?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-53995 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-53995 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-53995 exists.

Public exploit code:

- SickChill - Open Redirect (nuclei): http/cves/2024/CVE-2024-53995.yaml

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-53995 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-53995 is a low-severity vulnerability in sickchill, published on 8 Jan 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-53995 exists.

Affected packages and fixed versions:
- sickchill (PyPI): affected all versions up to 2024.3.1; no fix listed
- sickchill (PyPI): affected all versions up to 2024.3.1; no fix listed
- sickchill (PyPI): affected all versions up to 2024.3.1; 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-2024-53995/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-53995/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-53995
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53995
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-53995

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-53995/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.