Description

A vulnerability in mlflow/mlflow versions 3.9.0 and earlier allows unauthenticated access to certain FastAPI routes when the server is started with authentication enabled (`--app-name basic-auth`) and served via uvicorn (ASGI). The FastAPI permission middleware only enforces authentication on `/gateway/` routes, leaving other routes such as the Job API (`/ajax-api/3.0/jobs/*`) and the OpenTelemetry trace ingestion API (`/v1/traces`) unprotected. This allows unauthenticated remote attackers to submit jobs, read job results, cancel running jobs, and inject arbitrary trace data into experiments. The issue arises from an architectural mismatch between Flask and FastAPI authentication mechanisms, where the `_find_fastapi_validator()` function fails to handle non-`/gateway/` paths, resulting in a complete authentication bypass. This vulnerability is fixed in version 3.10.0.

Weaknesses 1

Affected Products 1

References 2

• github.com https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/commit/bb62e773263c14e9ba4d1a82fe72d0de2442c6aa
  Patch
• huntr.com https://huntr.com/bounties/5aeff5f0-49c7-4180-b5cb-c9a046f16756
  ExploitMitigationThird Party Advisory

Remediation

• github.com https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/commit/bb62e773263c14e9ba4d1a82fe72d0de2442c6aa
  Patch