IBM Langflow OSS 1.0.0 through 1.8.4 contains multiple broken access control vulnerabilities in its file handling API that allow unauthorized access to user files.The /api/v1/files/images/{flow_id}/{file_name} endpoint does not enforce authentication or authorization checks, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to retrieve image files associated with any flow by specifying a valid flow_id and file_name.Additionally, the /api/v1/files/download/{flow_id}/{file_name} endpoint requires authentication but fails to properly validate ownership of the requested resource. As a result, an authenticated user can access files belonging to other users by supplying arbitrary identifiers, leading to an authorization bypass (IDOR).Successful exploitation may result in unauthorized disclosure of sensitive data, including files stored in private flows. This issue breaks tenant isolation in multi-user deployments.
Weakness
The system’s authorization functionality does not prevent one user from gaining access to another user’s data or record by modifying the key value identifying the data.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Langflow | Langflow | 1.0.0 (including) | 1.9.0 (excluding) |
Extended Description
Retrieval of a user record occurs in the system based on some key value that is under user control. The key would typically identify a user-related record stored in the system and would be used to lookup that record for presentation to the user. It is likely that an attacker would have to be an authenticated user in the system. However, the authorization process would not properly check the data access operation to ensure that the authenticated user performing the operation has sufficient entitlements to perform the requested data access, hence bypassing any other authorization checks present in the system. For example, attackers can look at places where user specific data is retrieved (e.g. search screens) and determine whether the key for the item being looked up is controllable externally. The key may be a hidden field in the HTML form field, might be passed as a URL parameter or as an unencrypted cookie variable, then in each of these cases it will be possible to tamper with the key value. One manifestation of this weakness is when a system uses sequential or otherwise easily-guessable session IDs that would allow one user to easily switch to another user’s session and read/modify their data.