GHSA-5fw2-mwhh-9947 — flowise
HIGHGHSA-5fw2-mwhh-9947 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.5) CWE-639 vulnerability in flowise. A fix is available for flowise — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Flowise: Unauthenticated TTS endpoint accepts arbitrary credential IDs — enables API credit abuse via stored credentials
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for GHSA-5fw2-mwhh-9947.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a daily probability model maintained by FIRST.org. It estimates the likelihood a CVE will be exploited in production environments within the next 30 days, derived from real-world threat intelligence signals.
How urgent is this, really
GHSA-5fw2-mwhh-9947 plotted by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). The shaded corner — EPSS 50%+ and CVSS 7.0+ — is where this CVE doesn't sit, though severity or exploitability alone can still warrant action.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 377,166 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Real counts from FIRST.org, not a sample — log-scaled since the landscape is heavily right-skewed.
Real-World Exposure
How broadly this vulnerability is actually deployed: weekly install volume shows current usage, and reverse-dependency count shows how many other packages break if it stays unpatched.
flowisenpmDescription
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 | 3.1.0npm install flowise@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, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
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 Security's impact-aware SCA analyses which vulnerable code paths your application actually calls, so a match like GHSA-5fw2-mwhh-9947 can be triaged on real exposure rather than presence alone.
Tailored to GHSA-5fw2-mwhh-9947. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is GHSA-5fw2-mwhh-9947 in your dependencies?
O3 Security finds GHSA-5fw2-mwhh-9947 across npm dependencies, including transitive ones, and its impact-aware SCA ranks findings by whether your code actually calls the vulnerable path.