ConsoleMe has an Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability via Limited Git command
CVE-2024-5023 · GHSA-3783-62vc-jr7x · PYSEC-2026-318 · published 16 May 2024
How serious is it
- Severity: critical, CVSS score 9.6 out of 10.
- No exploit prediction (EPSS) score yet.
- Not on the CISA list of exploited vulnerabilities.
- No public exploit in Exploit-DB.
Is your app affected by CVE-2024-5023?
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Who is affected
consoleme(PyPI) < 1.4.0
How to check
- Run
pip show consolemein your project to see the installed version, including copies pulled in by other packages. - Or paste your lockfile into the checker: it lists every package with a known vulnerability, this one included.
- Or run
npx shippable-dev scan localhost:3000in your project folder. It reads your lockfile and flags this vulnerability along with every other known one.
How to fix
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- Upgrade
consolemeto 1.4.0 or later, commit the lockfile and redeploy. - If a vulnerable version was live, check your logs and rotate the secrets that server could read.
The advisory
## ID: NFLX-2024-002
### Impact
Authenticated users can achieve limited RCE in ConsoleMe, restricted to flag inputs on a single CLI command. Due to this constraint, it is not currently known whether full RCE is possible but it is unlikely.
However, a specific flag allows authenticated users to read any server files accessible by the ConsoleMe process. Given ConsoleMe's role as an AWS identity broker, accessing files containing secrets on the server could potentially be exploited for privilege escalation.
Deployments of ConsoleMe that allow templated resources are impacted and urged to patch immediately. Deployments that do not permit templated resources are not affected.
To determine if your ConsoleMe deployment uses templated resources, check the configuration value for `cache_resource_templates.repositories`. If this value does not exist or is an empty array, your deployment is not impacted.
### Description
The self-service flow for templated resources in ConsoleMe accepts a user-supplied JSON post body, which includes the filename for the templated resource. However, this user-supplied filename is not properly sanitized and is passed directly as a string to a CLI command. This allows users to input flags instead of filenames. By passing a specific flag with a filename value, users can induce an error that reveals the contents of the specified file, allowing them to read any files readable by the system user executing the ConsoleMe server process.
### Patches
This issue has been patched in version [v1.4.0](https://pypi.org/project/consoleme/1.4.0/) via https://github.com/Netflix/consoleme/pull/9380.
If you are unable to upgrade to the latest version, users can selectively apply the code changes in the above PR. Alternatively, removing the configuration item `cache_resource_templates.repositories` or adding it as an empty array should mitigate the issue, but will result in broken functionality (templated resources will no longer be supported for self-service).
### Credit
[Jay Dhulia](https://github.com/jaydhulia)
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References
- github.com/Netflix/consoleme/security/advisories/GHSA-3783-62vc-jr7x
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-5023
- github.com/Netflix/consoleme/pull/9380
- github.com/Netflix/consoleme/commit/2795a2bd553938a21c0643b37452971625ce67f5
- github.com/Netflix/security-bulletins/blob/master/advisories/nflx-2024-002.md
- github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/consoleme/PYSEC-2026-318.yaml
- pypi.org/project/consoleme
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-3783-62vc-jr7x
- github.com/Netflix/consoleme
Merged from GitHub Advisory Database, OSV. Last updated 28 Oct 2026. All vulnerabilities · RSS · JSON