CVE-2021-43831

HIGH NUCLEI

gradio < 2.5.0 - Unauthenticated Path Traversal

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

CVE-2021-43831 has a Nuclei detection template available — see the Nuclei card below for the Shodan/FOFA recon queries.

Description

Gradio is an open source framework for building interactive machine learning models and demos. In versions prior to 2.5.0 there is a vulnerability that affects anyone who creates and publicly shares Gradio interfaces. File paths are not restricted and users who receive a Gradio link can access any files on the host computer if they know the file names or file paths. This is limited only by the host operating system. Paths are opened in read only mode. The problem has been patched in gradio 2.5.0.

Nuclei Templates (1)

Gradio < 2.5.0 - Arbitrary File Read
HIGHby isacaya
Shodan: title:"Gradio"

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio/security/advisories/GHSA-rhq2-3vr9-6mcr

Scores

CVSS v3 7.7
EPSS 0.0379
EPSS Percentile 88.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-22
Status published
Products (2)
gradio_project/gradio < 2.5.0
pypi/gradio 0 - 2.5.0PyPI
Published Dec 15, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026