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

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

https://gcdradar.vercel.app/incidents/cve-2025-23042-gradio-blocked-path-acl-bypass-vulnerability · AIR-2025-0195 · closed 2025-01-14

- Lane: Patch now
- Severity: 2 (Disclosed vulnerability)
- Fix status: Fix status unknown
- First reported: 2025-01-14
- AI role: Attack on AI
- Products: Gradio
- CVE ids: CVE-2025-23042
- CVSS: 9.1

## Summary

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.

## What to do

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

## Latest updates

- 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,… (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-23042)
- 2025-01-14: CVE-2025-23042: Gradio Blocked Path ACL Bypass Vulnerability (https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j2jg-fq62-7c3h)

## Sources

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

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