# CVE-2023-43791: Label Studio has Hardcoded Django \`SECRET\_KEY\` that can be Abused to Forge Session Tokens

- Also known as: PYSEC-2023-274, GHSA-F475-X83M-RX5M
- Severity: CVSS 9.8 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.8.2
- Published: 2023-11-09 · Updated: 2024-09-03

## Affected

- HumanSignal label-studio: through 1.8.1
- label-studio (PyPI): fixed in 1.8.2

## Description

Label Studio is a multi-type data labeling and annotation tool with standardized output format. There is a vulnerability that can be chained within the ORM Leak vulnerability to impersonate any account on Label Studio. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to escalate their privileges from a low privilege user to a Django Super Administrator user. The vulnerability was found to affect versions before `1.8.2`, where a patch was introduced.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on HumanSignal label-studio, label-studio, upgrade to a fixed version (1.8.2) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/HumanSignal/label-studio/security/advisories/GHSA-f475-x83m-rx5m
- https://github.com/HumanSignal/label-studio/pull/4690
- https://github.com/HumanSignal/label-studio/commit/3d06c5131c15600621e08b06f07d976887cde81b
- https://github.com/HumanSignal/label-studio/releases/tag/1.8.2

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