{"id":"CVE-2024-22416","aliases":["GHSA-pgpj-v85q-h5fm","PYSEC-2024-17"],"title":"Cross-Site Request Forgery on any API call in pyLoad may lead to admin privilege escalation","summary":"Cross-Site Request Forgery on any API call in pyLoad may lead to admin privilege escalation","severity":"critical","cvss":9.6,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H","vendor":"pyload-ng","product":"pyload-ng","ecosystem":"pip","affected":["pyload-ng < 0.5.0b3.dev78"],"patched":["pyload-ng 0.5.0b3.dev78"],"published":"2024-01-19","updated":"2026-09-10","sourceUpdated":"2026-09-10T03:50:05.056650752Z","source":"OSV","sourceUrl":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-pgpj-v85q-h5fm","references":[{"url":"https://github.com/pyload/pyload/security/advisories/GHSA-pgpj-v85q-h5fm"},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-22416"},{"url":"https://github.com/pyload/pyload/commit/1374c824271cb7e927740664d06d2e577624ca3e"},{"url":"https://github.com/pyload/pyload/commit/c7cdc18ad9134a75222974b39e8b427c4af845fc"},{"url":"https://github.com/pyload/pyload"},{"url":"https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/pyload-ng/PYSEC-2024-17.yaml"}],"tags":["osv","pip","exploit-available"],"epss":0.00948,"epssPercentile":0.59665,"exploits":{"github":1,"githubRepos":["https://github.com/theorzr/ensimag-secu3a-cve-2024-22416"],"checkedAt":"2026-09-23T07:13:28.616Z"},"exploitAvailable":true,"ingestedAt":"2026-09-12T03:13:01.715Z","slug":"CVE-2024-22416","body":"## Overview\n\n### 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```\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\n\nThe attacker can now authenticate as this newly created administrator user with the username `hacker` and password `hacker`.\n\n\n### Impact\nAny API call can be made via a CSRF attack by an unauthenticated user.\n\n\n## Affected packages\n\n- `pyload-ng < 0.5.0b3.dev78`\n\n## Remediation\n\nUpgrade to a patched release:\n\n- `pyload-ng 0.5.0b3.dev78`","depth":"abyssal","depthScore":65,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":52.8,"likelihood":0.2,"exploitation":12,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}