CVE-2024-5185
📋 TL;DR
EmbedAI applications are vulnerable to data poisoning attacks via CSRF due to insecure session management and weak CORS policies. Attackers can trick authenticated users into uploading malicious data to corrupt the AI model. This affects all EmbedAI deployments with vulnerable configurations.
💻 Affected Systems
- EmbedAI
⚠️ Manual Verification Required
This CVE does not have specific version information in our database, so automatic vulnerability detection cannot determine if your system is affected.
Why? The CVE database entry doesn't specify which versions are vulnerable (no version ranges provided by the vendor/NVD).
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- Review the CVE details at NVD
- Check vendor security advisories for your specific version
- Test if the vulnerability is exploitable in your environment
- Consider updating to the latest version as a precaution
⚠️ Risk & Real-World Impact
Worst Case
AI model becomes completely corrupted with malicious data, leading to incorrect outputs, data leakage, or complete system compromise.
Likely Case
Partial data poisoning affecting specific model outputs, potentially causing business logic errors or misinformation.
If Mitigated
Minimal impact with proper CSRF tokens, CORS restrictions, and input validation in place.
🎯 Exploit Status
Exploitation requires authenticated user interaction but is technically simple once malicious page is crafted.
🛠️ Fix & Mitigation
✅ Official Fix
Patch Version: Check vendor advisory for specific version
Vendor Advisory: https://www.synopsys.com/blogs/software-security/cyrc-advisory-data-poisoning-embedai.html
Restart Required: Yes
Instructions:
1. Check vendor advisory for patched version. 2. Update EmbedAI to latest secure version. 3. Restart application services. 4. Verify CSRF protection and CORS policies are properly configured.
🔧 Temporary Workarounds
Implement CSRF Tokens
allAdd CSRF tokens to all state-changing requests and validate them server-side.
Configure CSRF middleware in application framework
Restrict CORS Policies
allConfigure CORS to only allow trusted origins instead of wildcard (*) or overly permissive settings.
Set Access-Control-Allow-Origin to specific trusted domains
🧯 If You Can't Patch
- Implement WAF rules to block CSRF attempts and restrict cross-origin requests.
- Monitor for unusual data upload patterns and implement strict input validation.
🔍 How to Verify
Check if Vulnerable:
Test if application accepts state-changing requests without CSRF tokens from cross-origin sites.Check Version:
Check EmbedAI version in application interface or configuration files.Verify Fix Applied:
Verify CSRF tokens are required for all POST/PUT/DELETE requests and CORS headers restrict origins.📡 Detection & Monitoring
Log Indicators:
- Multiple failed CSRF token validations
- Unusual cross-origin requests to data upload endpoints
Network Indicators:
- Requests to data upload endpoints without Referer headers matching origin
- Cross-origin POST requests without CSRF tokens
SIEM Query:
source="web_app" AND (event="csrf_validation_failed" OR uri="/api/upload" AND referer NOT CONTAINS domain)