CVE-2024-5185
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedThe EmbedAI application is susceptible to security issues that enable Data Poisoning attacks. This weakness could result in the application becoming compromised, leading to unauthorized entries or data poisoning attacks, which are delivered by a CSRF vulnerability due to the absence of a secure session management implementation and weak CORS policies weakness. An attacker can direct a user to a malicious webpage that exploits a CSRF vulnerability within the EmbedAI application. By leveraging this CSRF vulnerability, the attacker can deceive the user into inadvertently uploading and integrating incorrect data into the application’s language model.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceThis is a CSRF vulnerability in the EmbedAI application that enables data poisoning attacks. Attackers exploit the absence of secure session management (missing CSRF tokens) combined with weak CORS policies to trick authenticated users into uploading malicious data into the application's language model via cross-origin requests.
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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Adjacent
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify EmbedAI versionLocate the installed EmbedAI version by checking application metadata files, package.json, or the application's about/settings page where version information is displayedAffected if The installed version is within the range that lacks CSRF protections (compare your version against any known vulnerable releases)
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Inspect form submissions for CSRF tokensExamine HTML forms and API requests in the application, particularly those that modify data (POST/PUT/DELETE requests). Inspect the source code or use browser developer tools to check if anti-CSRF tokens are included in state-changing operationsAffected if State-changing operations lack CSRF tokens or use predictable/non-random token values
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Review CORS policy configurationCheck the server or application configuration files for CORS settings. Look for Access-Control-Allow-Origin headers and evaluate whether they allow arbitrary cross-origin requestsAffected if CORS policy permits unrestricted cross-origin access (e.g., Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * or no origin restriction)
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Verify session management implementationExamine session handling code or configuration to confirm that secure session tokens are generated, validated, and tied to user sessions with proper randomnessAffected if Sessions lack proper token validation or use weak/predictable session identifiers
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Test cross-origin request acceptanceSend a cross-origin request from an untrusted domain to a state-changing endpoint (e.g., data upload endpoints) using curl or a browser script, and observe if the request is processed without proper origin validationAffected if The application accepts and processes cross-origin requests without proper origin verification
The environment is affected if EmbedAI is running without CSRF token protection on data-modifying operations AND permits cross-origin requests from untrusted sources.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataImplement CSRF tokens for all state-changing operations, enforce secure session management with proper token validation, and harden CORS policies to restrict cross-origin requests to trusted sources.
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