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incidents/AIR-2025-0195

CVE-2025-23042: Gradio blocked path ACL bypass vulnerability

Attack on AI2 Disclosed vulnerabilityInfrastructure vulnerability

Gradio suffers from an access control list bypass vulnerability caused by a lack of case normalization in file path validation. Attackers can exploit this on case-insensitive filesystems to access sensitive files.

disclosed CVENo confirmed exploitation, so this record is tracked as a disclosed vulnerability and not counted as an incident. It moves into the counts if CISA or the vendor confirms exploitation. Why

Details

type
Attack on AI
An AI model, agent or AI-powered product was the thing exploited, abused or leaked.
categories
  • Infrastructure vulnerability
    CVEs and advisories in AI frameworks, inference servers, MCP servers, AI developer tools and hosting stacks.
owasp llm top 10
mitre atlas
no technique for these categories
Both rows are derived from the type and categories (OWASP 2025 edition, ATLAS release 2026.09), not classified per record. How
severity
2 · Disclosed vulnerability
CVE or vendor advisory, patched or patchable, no confirmed exploitation.
targets
Framework / tooling
products
Gradio
incident date
14 Jan 2025
first reported
14 Jan 2025
origin
GitHub Advisory Database
Vulnerability record from NVD / the GitHub Advisory Database. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
classifier confidence
0.95 · published at or above 0.80; see the methodology
tags
CVE-2025-23042 · acl-bypass
record
created 2026-10-18 07:00Z · updated 2026-10-18 10:04Z · json

Sources · 2

  1. 2025-01-14
    CVE-2025-23042: Gradio Blocked Path ACL Bypass Vulnerability
    GitHub Advisory Database · github.com/advisories/GHSA-j2jg-fq62-7c3h
  2. 2025-01-14
    CVE-2025-23042: Gradio is an open-source Python package that allows quick building of demos and web application for machine learning models, API,…
    NVD · nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-23042

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