CVE-2024-8966: Gradio denial of service via multipart boundary file upload

# CVE-2024-8966: Gradio denial of service via multipart boundary file upload

https://gcdradar.vercel.app/incidents/cve-2024-8966-gradio-denial-of-service-via-multipart-boundar · AIR-2025-0236 · closed 2025-03-20

- Lane: Patch now
- Severity: 2 (Disclosed vulnerability)
- Fix status: Fix status unknown
- First reported: 2025-03-20
- AI role: Attack on AI
- Products: Gradio
- CVE ids: CVE-2024-8966
- CVSS: 7.5

## Summary

A vulnerability in the Gradio file upload process enables denial of service attacks by appending excessive characters to multipart boundaries. This can cause the application to become inaccessible.

## What to do

No action recorded; read the sources below and the vendor's advisory.

## Latest updates

- 2025-03-20: CVE-2024-8966: A vulnerability in the file upload process of gradio-app/gradio version @gradio/video@0.10.2 allows for a Denial of Service (DoS)… (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8966)
- 2025-03-20: CVE-2024-8966: Gradio DOS in multipart boundry while uploading the file (https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5cpq-9538-jm2j)

## Sources

- 2025-03-20 GitHub Advisory Database: CVE-2024-8966: Gradio DOS in multipart boundry while uploading the file https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5cpq-9538-jm2j
- 2025-03-20 NVD: CVE-2024-8966: A vulnerability in the file upload process of gradio-app/gradio version @gradio/video@0.10.2 allows for a Denial of Service (DoS)… https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8966

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