PYSEC-2026-1658

MLflow Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability

Description

In mlflow/mlflow version v2.13.2, a vulnerability exists that allows the creation or renaming of an experiment with a large number of integers in its name due to the lack of a limit on the experiment name. This can cause the MLflow UI panel to become unresponsive, leading to a potential denial of service. Additionally, there is no character limit in the `artifact_location` parameter while creating the experiment.

Affected packages

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6838 ADVISORY
• https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow PACKAGE
• https://huntr.com/bounties/8ad52cb2-2cda-4eb0-aec9-586060ee43e0 WEB
• https://pypi.org/project/mlflow PACKAGE
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q3gw-8236-5jw4 ADVISORY

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