GHSA-5fw2-mwhh-9947
HIGHGHSA-5fw2-mwhh-9947 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in flowise. O3 Security confirms whether GHSA-5fw2-mwhh-9947 is actually reachable in your code before you act, and blocks exploitation at runtime until you patch.
Flowise: Unauthenticated TTS endpoint accepts arbitrary credential IDs — enables API credit abuse via stored credentials
Blast Radius
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Description
Summary
The text-to-speech generation endpoint (POST /api/v1/text-to-speech/generate) is whitelisted (no auth) and accepts a credentialId directly in the request body. When called without a chatflowId, the endpoint uses the provided credentialId to decrypt the stored credential (e.g., OpenAI or ElevenLabs API key) and generate speech.
Root Cause
// packages/server/src/controllers/text-to-speech/index.ts:58-64
} else {
// Use TTS config from request body
provider = bodyProvider
credentialId = bodyCredentialId // ← attacker-controlled credential ID
voice = bodyVoice
model = bodyModel
}
Docker Validation
POST /api/v1/text-to-speech/generate with arbitrary credentialId in body: endpoint processes request, sends SSE tts_start event, only fails when credential doesn't exist — proves code path runs without authentication.
Impact
- Use victim's API keys (OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Azure, Google) without authorization
- Burn API credits on the victim's account
- Generate unlimited speech content at victim's expense
- Combined with credential ID leak from Finding 2, this is trivially exploitable
Suggested Fix
Remove the TTS endpoint from WHITELIST_URLS or validate that the credential belongs to the chatflow being used:
// Only allow credentialId when it matches the chatflow's TTS configuration
if (!chatflowId) {
return res.status(401).json({ message: 'Authentication required' })
}
References
packages/server/src/controllers/text-to-speech/index.tslines 10-162packages/server/src/utils/constants.tsline 41 (whitelist entry)
Credits
- Shinobi Security - https://github.com/shinobisecurity
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📦npm | flowise | all versions | 3.1.0 |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for flowise. O3's reachability analysis confirms whether the vulnerable code path is actually invoked in your application, so you act on real exposure instead of every transitive match.
Fix
Update flowise to 3.1.0 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms GHSA-5fw2-mwhh-9947 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
How O3 protects you
O3 pinpoints whether GHSA-5fw2-mwhh-9947 is reachable in your code and exactly where to fix it, then blocks exploitation in production at runtime until the patched version is deployed.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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