Flowise: Authenticated remote code execution
A critical vulnerability in Flowise allows an authenticated remote attacker to bypass security controls and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the application service.
Triage facts
Revision 1- Applicability
- Flowise
- Evidence
- Unknown
- Severity
- Critical
- Action
- Elevated
- Sources
- 1 public source
- Freshness
- Revision 1Nov 2, 21:33 UTC
- Source quality
- A1Likely
A critical vulnerability has been identified in Flowise that enables an authenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary code within the context of the service. The vulnerability stems from an insecure implementation that permits the bypass of existing security controls. As of this report, the vulnerability remains unpatched.
Impact
An attacker successfully exploiting this vulnerability gains the ability to execute arbitrary code with the same privileges as the underlying Flowise service, potentially leading to full application compromise, data exfiltration, or further lateral movement within the environment.
Recommendation
- Inventory all internet-facing or internal instances of Flowise within the infrastructure.
- Implement strict network segmentation to limit access to the Flowise management interface to trusted administrative subnets only.
- Monitor logs for unusual authentication activity followed by service-level process execution.
- Follow the vendor communication channels and prioritize the application of security updates once a patch is released.
Immediate actions
Restrict network access to Flowise management interface
Threat Hunt
Identify authenticated sessions followed by abnormal child process creation from the Flowise service account
Data: Process creation logs (Event ID 1), Application access logs
Mitigations
Isolate Flowise instances until vendor security patches are available
Flowise unpatched vulnerability