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We found 4,972 "hello" messages hiding thousands of malicious commands targeting Flowise

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Authoritative record:CVE-2024-58351· Critical 9.3

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 9.3 Critical.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026, 15:12 UTC

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

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 20 Jun 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

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

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

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

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

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

Discussion

The Greeter attack framework targets Flowise, an AI development platform, by exploiting a vulnerability (CVE-2024-58351) in its runtime configuration mechanism. Attackers send numerous benign-looking "hello" messages that carry malicious JavaScript commands via the overrideConfig parameter, enabling remote code execution without altering the saved chatflow. This allows attackers to perform host reconnaissance, credential and cloud metadata harvesting, persistence attempts, and fileless execution preparation. The attack was observed on exposed Flowise instances, including unauthenticated and vulnerable deployments, highlighting risks of AI applications as entry points into cloud environments.

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TL;DR: Our research team at Era uncovered Greeter, an attack framework targeting Flowise, an AI development platform with 55,000+ GitHub stars.

We deployed seven honeypots and captured 4,972 "hello" messages, each carrying malicious JavaScript through Flowise's overrideConfig parameter.

The interesting part? The malicious code never appeared in the saved workflow.

We reconstructed 4,000+ commands revealing:

  • Host reconnaissance and privilege checks
  • Searches for credentials, SSH keys, and secrets
  • AWS, Azure, and GCP metadata probing
  • Persistence attempts and fileless execution preparation

We also identified 4,372 internet-exposed Flowise instances, including 46 unauthenticated instances that appeared to match our vulnerable setup.

The bigger concern is how a compromised AI application can become an entry point into the broader cloud environment.

Full technical breakdown: https://era.security/blog/greeter-flowise-ai-infrastructure-attack

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