CVE-2024-22416
Cross-Site Request Forgery on any API call in pyLoad may lead to admin privilege escalation
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 9.7 Critical
- Published
- Jan 17, 2024
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2025
- Reserved
- Jan 10, 2024
Description
pyLoad is a free and open-source Download Manager written in pure Python. The `pyload` API allows any API call to be made using GET requests. Since the session cookie is not set to `SameSite: strict`, this opens the library up to severe attack possibilities via a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attack. As a result any API call can be made via a CSRF attack by an unauthenticated user. This issue has been addressed in release `0.5.0b3.dev78`. All users are advised to upgrade.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 9.7 Critical | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
pyloadpyload |
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References
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