CVE-2024-1522
📋 TL;DR
A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the parisneo/lollms-webui project allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands on a victim's system. Attackers can craft malicious webpages that, when visited by victims with a local lollms-webui instance running, trigger code execution without requiring direct network access to the vulnerable application. This affects all users running vulnerable versions of lollms-webui with the web interface accessible.
💻 Affected Systems
- parisneo/lollms-webui
📦 What is this software?
⚠️ Risk & Real-World Impact
Worst Case
Complete system compromise with remote code execution leading to data theft, ransomware deployment, or persistent backdoor installation.
Likely Case
Attacker gains shell access on victim's machine, potentially stealing sensitive data or using the system as a pivot point.
If Mitigated
Limited impact with proper CSRF protections and network segmentation in place.
🎯 Exploit Status
Exploitation requires victim to visit a malicious webpage while having lollms-webui running locally.
🛠️ Fix & Mitigation
✅ Official Fix
Patch Version: Commit 0b51063119cfb5e391925d232a4af1de9dc32e2b and later
Vendor Advisory: https://github.com/parisneo/lollms-webui/commit/0b51063119cfb5e391925d232a4af1de9dc32e2b
Restart Required: Yes
Instructions:
1. Update to the latest version from GitHub. 2. Pull the latest changes: git pull origin main. 3. Restart the lollms-webui service.
🔧 Temporary Workarounds
Disable web interface
allStop using the vulnerable web interface component
Stop the lollms-webui service
Network isolation
allRestrict access to lollms-webui to localhost only
Configure firewall to block external access to lollms-webui port
🧯 If You Can't Patch
- Implement strict CSRF tokens on all API endpoints
- Run lollms-webui in a sandboxed/containerized environment with minimal privileges
🔍 How to Verify
Check if Vulnerable:
Check if your version is before commit 0b51063119cfb5e391925d232a4af1de9dc32e2bCheck Version:
git log --oneline -1Verify Fix Applied:
Verify the /execute_code endpoint now requires proper CSRF token validation📡 Detection & Monitoring
Log Indicators:
- Unusual POST requests to /execute_code endpoint
- OS command execution from web interface
Network Indicators:
- External requests to lollms-webui API endpoints
- CSRF attack patterns
SIEM Query:
source="lollms-webui" AND (uri_path="/execute_code" OR method="POST")🔗 References
- https://github.com/parisneo/lollms-webui/commit/0b51063119cfb5e391925d232a4af1de9dc32e2b
- https://huntr.com/bounties/687cef92-3432-4d6c-af92-868eccabbb71
- https://github.com/parisneo/lollms-webui/commit/0b51063119cfb5e391925d232a4af1de9dc32e2b
- https://huntr.com/bounties/687cef92-3432-4d6c-af92-868eccabbb71
