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CVE-2024-22416 (GCVE-0-2024-22416)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-17 23:48 – Updated: 2025-06-17 21:19
VLAI
Title
Cross-Site Request Forgery on any API call in pyLoad may lead to admin privilege escalation
Summary
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.
Severity
9.7 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-01-18 01:21 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-352 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
pyload pyload Affected: < 0.5.0b3.dev78
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