The EmbedAI application is susceptible to security issues that enable Data Poisoning attacks.
Date: 2024-05
Attack vector: model-poisoning
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: High
CVE: CVE-2024-5185
CWE: CWE-352
CVSS: 7.3 (CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H)

The 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.


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