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Critical · 9.7 Public exploit CVE-2024-22416 EUVD-2024-0154GHSA-pgpj-v85q-h5fmPYSEC-2024-17

Cross-Site Request Forgery on any API call in pyLoad may lead to admin privilege escalation

Published Jan 17, 2024 · Updated Jun 17, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Vendor: pyload Product: pyload Package: pyload-ng Ecosystem: PyPI

Description

pyLoad is a free and open-source Download Manager written in pure Python. The `pyload` API allows any API call to be made using GET requests. Since the session cookie is not set to `SameSite: strict`, this opens the library up to severe attack possibilities via a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attack. As a result any API call can be made via a CSRF attack by an unauthenticated user. This issue has been addressed in release `0.5.0b3.dev78`. All users are advised to upgrade.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
pyload pyload < 0.5.0b3.dev78 —

Public exploits

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Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI pyload-ng < 0.5.0b3.dev78 0.5.0b3.dev78 GHSA-pgpj-v85q-h5fm

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