{"items":[{"id":"NVI-00017803","kind":"vulnerability","title":"Cross-Site Request Forgery on any API call in pyLoad may lead to admin privilege escalation","revision":1,"unknowns":["Customer inventory, deployment, reachability and exploitation have not been inspected."],"lifecycle":"active","identifiers":["GHSA-pgpj-v85q-h5fm","CVE-2024-22416"],"plain_summary":"GitHub lists this reviewed advisory for pyload-ng. Published version ranges and source prerequisites are shown below; this is not an inspection of a visitor’s application.","review_status":"source_listed","control_topics":[],"public_actions":[{"summary":"Identify the exact component and deployed version, examine the linked publisher’s conditions, and retain evidence of any mitigation.","source_ids":["sr-69bc35d635ea83f6546b82a2bc807560"],"action_type":"investigate","limitations":"Confirm current vendor support, compatibility and deployment evidence. This report has not tested a fix in your system.","current_supported_target":null}],"schema_version":"1.1.0","source_metrics":[{"kind":"CVSS","as_of":"2026-06-28T13:50:06.000Z","value":"9.6 critical","meaning":"GitHub source severity; exploitability and local consequence require separate evidence.","source_id":"sr-69bc35d635ea83f6546b82a2bc807560"}],"why_it_matters":"Published affected context helps an owner decide what evidence to gather. This report has not examined your application.","related_sources":[{"id":"sr-69bc35d635ea83f6546b82a2bc807560","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pgpj-v85q-h5fm","basis":"vendor_advisory","notes":"GitHub Advisory Database; CC-BY-4.0. Each advisory links its original attribution. Null normalizes fields.","title":"GHSA-pgpj-v85q-h5fm","publisher":"GitHub Advisory Database","observed_at":"2026-11-05T19:05:04.022Z"}],"affected_context":[{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-69bc35d635ea83f6546b82a2bc807560"],"technology":"pyload-ng","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"### Summary\nThe `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. This proof of concept shows how an unauthenticated user could trick the administrator's browser into creating a new admin user.\n\n### PoC\nWe host the following HTML file on an attacker-controlled server.\n```html\n\n  \n  \n    \n      \n    \n    \n      history.pushState('', '', '/');\n      document.forms[0].submit();\n    \n  \n\n```\n\nIf we now trick an administrator into visiting our malicious page at `https://attacker.com/CSRF.html`, we see that their browser will make a request to `/api/add_user/%22hacker%22,%22hacker%22`, adding a new administrator to the `pyload` application.\n!image\n\nThe attacker can now authenticate as t","public_affected_ranges":["< 0.5.0b3.dev78"]}],"null_published_at":"2026-11-05T19:10:21.470Z","source_updated_at":"2026-06-28T13:50:06.000Z","source_disclosed_at":"2024-01-19T15:27:12.000Z","is_synthetic_fixture":false,"null_last_reviewed_at":null,"public_change_summary":"First indexed by Null; source disclosure date is shown separately.","null_first_observed_at":"2026-11-05T19:05:04.022Z"}],"next_cursor":null,"snapshot_revision":"42594"}