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CVE-2023-3765 Public exploit Critical · 10.0 EPSS 67.5%

Absolute Path Traversal in mlflow/mlflow

mlflow · mlflow/mlflow

Summary

An absolute path traversal flaw exists in the mlflow/mlflow GitHub repository, in versions prior to 2.5.0. The vulnerability lets an attacker reach files outside the intended directory by supplying absolute paths, and it can be exploited remotely without authentication or user interaction.

Official description · CVE.org

Absolute Path Traversal in GitHub repository mlflow/mlflow prior to 2.5.0.

Breakdown
31.9 / 100
Exploited
Not confirmed
Reports
0
Tactics
0/15

Disclosed on 19 Jul 2023. No public exploit code or confirmed exploitation is recorded.

See the family tree

10 related vulnerabilities in the same code over 20 months. The latest fix listed for mlflow is 2.8.1.

Same bug familyLinked by evidence that a fix failed or the same code was patched again. Oldest first.

  1. This CVECVE-2023-3765Absolute Path Traversal in mlflow/mlflow19 Jul 2023
  2. relatedMedium

    Why these are linked:

    CVE-2025-1473CSRF in mlflow/mlflow20 Mar 2025

8 more CVEs are in this family. See the family tree

Fixes in mlflowPyPI package, by fixed version. Earlier and later fixes in the same package, not necessarily the same bug.

  1. 2.2.2CVE-2023-117624 Mar 2023
  2. 2.3.1CVE-2023-235628 Apr 2023
  3. 2.3.1CVE-2023-278017 May 2023
  4. 2.5.0CVE-2023-376519 Jul 2023
  5. 2.6.0CVE-2023-40331 Aug 2023
  6. 2.8.0CVE-2023-601416 Nov 2023
  7. 2.8.1CVE-2023-601516 Nov 2023Latest listed

techniques

No techniques linked

No ATT&CK techniques are linked to this CVE yet. MITRE CTID has not mapped it, and no report passage in the corpus ties it to a technique.

Am I affected? What do I upgrade to?

From GitHub Security Advisories and OSV

1 package in 1 ecosystem. Main package: mlflow.

Upgrade to 2.22.4

Fixes this CVE and 5 other known vulnerabilities in this package (CVE-2023-1177, CVE-2023-2356, +3).

Still affected on this line by CVE-2026-2614 (fixed in 3.10.0, a newer line); CVE-2026-2652 (fixed in 3.10.0, a newer line); CVE-2026-64849 (fixed in 3.15.0, a newer line).

pippip install "mlflow>=2.22.4"

First fixed in 2.5.0 for CVE-2023-3765.

Affected versions

If you runUpgrade to
All versions before 2.5.02.22.4first fix for this CVE: 2.5.0

“Up to” means the second version is the fix and is not affected.

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What security researchers reported

Not named in any threat report yet

References

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