Exposure of sensitive Information allows account takeover
June 9, 2025

Products Impacted
This vulnerability is present in all versions of BackendAI. We tested on version 25.3.3 (commit f7f8fe33ea0230090f1d0e5a936ef8edd8cf9959).
CVSS Score: 8.0
AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE Categorization
CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information
Details
To reproduce this, we started an interactive session

Then, we can read /home/config/environ.txt and read the information.

Timeline
March 28, 2025 — Contacted vendor to let them know we have identified security vulnerabilities and ask how we should report them.
April 02, 2025 — Vendor answered letting us know their process, which we followed to send the report.
April 21, 2025 — Vendor sent confirmation that their security team was working on actions for two of the vulnerabilities and they were unable to reproduce another.
April 21, 2025 — Follow up email sent providing additional steps on how to reproduce the third vulnerability and offered to have a call with them regarding this.
May 30, 2025 — Attempt to reach out to vendor prior to public disclosure date.
June 03, 2025 — Final attempt to reach out to vendor prior to public disclosure date.
June 09, 2025 — HiddenLayer public disclosure.
Project URL
https://github.com/lablup/backend.ai
Researcher: Esteban Tonglet, Security Researcher, HiddenLayer
Researcher: Kasimir Schulz, Director, Security Research, HiddenLayer
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