# CVE-2024-8182: Flowise Denial of Service

> Unauthenticated attackers can crash the Flowise instance by sending malicious input to the get-upload-file API endpoint.

- **Severity:** High 7.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 27 Aug 2024
- **Updated:** 27 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-48x4-mx8f-gr4h

## What is CVE-2024-8182?

CVE-2024-8182 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Flowiseai Flowise, published on 27 Aug 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

An Unauthenticated Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability exists in Flowise version 1.8.2 leading to a complete crash of the instance running a vulnerable version due to improper handling of user supplied input to the “/api/v1/get-upload-file” api endpoint.

Weakness: CWE-400 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-8182?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including flowise. It affects 1 product.


| Package | Ecosystem | Affected | Fixed in |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `flowise` | npm | All versions to 1.8.2 | None |
| `flowise` | npm | All versions to 1.8.2 | None |

Products: Flowiseai Flowise.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-8182?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-8182 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-8182 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8182 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Flowiseai Flowise

- [CVE-2025-71338](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-71338/): Flowise through 2.2.7 - Arbitrary File Write to Remote Code Execution via document-store API (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2026-40933](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-40933/): Flowise: Authenticated RCE Via MCP Adapters (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2025-61913](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-61913/): Flowise is vulnerable to arbitrary file read, arbitrary file write (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2025-59528](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-59528/): Flowise has Remote Code Execution vulnerability (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2026-52098](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-52098/): Code injection in n/a (critical 9.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-8182 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-8182 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Flowiseai Flowise, published on 27 Aug 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8182 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected packages and fixed versions:
- flowise (npm): affected all versions up to 1.8.2; no fix listed
- flowise (npm): affected all versions up to 1.8.2; 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-2024-8182/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8182/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-8182
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8182
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-8182

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8182/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.