# CVE-2024-35198: TorchServe bypass allowed\_urls configuration

- Also known as: GHSA-WXCX-GG9C-FWP2, PYSEC-2026-554
- 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=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.11.0
- Published: 2024-07-18 · Updated: 2024-08-07

## Affected

- pytorch serve: from 0.4.2, fixed in 0.11.0
- torchserve (PyPI): fixed in 0.11.0

## Description

TorchServe is a flexible and easy-to-use tool for serving and scaling PyTorch models in production. TorchServe 's check on allowed_urls configuration can be by-passed if the URL contains characters such as ".." but it does not prevent the model from being downloaded into the model store. Once a file is downloaded, it can be referenced without providing a URL the second time, which effectively bypasses the allowed_urls security check. Customers using PyTorch inference Deep Learning Containers (DLC) through Amazon SageMaker and EKS are not affected. This issue in TorchServe has been fixed by validating the URL without characters such as ".." before downloading see PR #3082. TorchServe release 0.11.0 includes the fix to address this vulnerability. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on pytorch serve, torchserve, upgrade to a fixed version (0.11.0) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/pytorch/serve/security/advisories/GHSA-wxcx-gg9c-fwp2
- https://github.com/pytorch/serve/pull/3082
- https://github.com/pytorch/serve/releases/tag/v0.11.0

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