# CVE-2025-49651: Missing Authorization for Interactive Sessions

> Attackers can hijack active sessions to access or alter data due to missing authorization checks in Lablup BackendAI.

- **Severity:** High 8.1 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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:** 9 Jun 2025
- **Updated:** 11 Jun 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-h889-475r-wfmm, PYSEC-2026-1210

## What is CVE-2025-49651?

CVE-2025-49651 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Lablup BackendAI, published on 9 Jun 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Missing Authorization in Lablup's BackendAI allows attackers to takeover all active sessions; Accessing, stealing, or altering any data accessible in the session. This vulnerability exists in all current versions of BackendAI.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-49651?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including backend-ai and backend.ai.


| Package | Ecosystem | Affected | Fixed in |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `backend-ai` | PyPI | All versions to 25.3.3 | None |
| `backend-ai` | PyPI | All versions to 25.3.3 | None |
| `backend.ai` | PyPI | All versions to 25.3.3 | None |

## How do I fix CVE-2025-49651?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-49651 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-49651 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-49651 exists.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-49651 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-49651 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Lablup BackendAI, published on 9 Jun 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-49651 exists.

Affected packages and fixed versions:
- backend-ai (PyPI): affected all versions up to 25.3.3; no fix listed
- backend-ai (PyPI): affected all versions up to 25.3.3; no fix listed
- backend.ai (PyPI): affected all versions up to 25.3.3; 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-2025-49651/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-49651/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-49651
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-49651
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-49651

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-49651/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.
