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CVE-2024-21644: pyLoad unauthenticated flask configuration leakage

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 42.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-01-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-284

Description

pyLoad is the free and open-source Download Manager written in pure Python. Any unauthenticated user can browse to a specific URL to expose the Flask config, including the `SECRET_KEY` variable. This issue has been patched in version 0.5.0b3.dev77.

Affected products

• pyload/pyload: through 0.4.9; 0.5.0-beta1, 0.5.0-beta2

References

• https://github.com/pyload/pyload/commit/bb22063a875ffeca357aaf6e2edcd09705688c40
• https://github.com/pyload/pyload/security/advisories/GHSA-mqpq-2p68-46fv
• https://github.com/pyload/pyload/commit/bb22063a875ffeca357aaf6e2edcd09705688c40
• https://github.com/pyload/pyload/security/advisories/GHSA-mqpq-2p68-46fv

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