CVE-2026-27167 PUBLISHED

Gradio: Mocked OAuth Login Exposes Server Credentials and Uses Hardcoded Session Secret

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 18.02.2026 Published: 27.02.2026 Updated: 27.02.2026

Gradio is an open-source Python package designed for quick prototyping. Starting in version 4.16.0 and prior to version 6.6.0, Gradio applications running outside of Hugging Face Spaces automatically enable "mocked" OAuth routes when OAuth components (e.g. gr.LoginButton) are used. When a user visits /login/huggingface, the server retrieves its own Hugging Face access token via huggingface_hub.get_token() and stores it in the visitor's session cookie. If the application is network-accessible, any remote attacker can trigger this flow to steal the server owner's HF token. The session cookie is signed with a hardcoded secret derived from the string "-v4", making the payload trivially decodable. Version 6.6.0 fixes the issue.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score: 0

Product Status

Vendor gradio-app
Product gradio
Versions
  • Version >= 4.16.0, < 6.6.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-798: Use of Hard-coded Credentials CWE
  • CWE-522: Insufficiently Protected Credentials CWE