Vulnerability · Published May 10, 2025 · Assigned by VulDB

CVE-2025-4515Zylon PrivateGPT settings.yaml cross-domain policy

Medium 4.3

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in PrivateGPT from Zylon. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 30% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.3Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 69.7% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Zylon PrivateGPT up to 0.6.2. This affects an unknown part of the file settings.yaml. The manipulation of the argument allow_origins leads to permissive cross-domain policy with untrusted domains. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Zylon	PrivateGPT	0.6.00.6.10.6.2

Weakness: CWE-942, CWE-346 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

References

VDB-308235 | Zylon PrivateGPT settings.yaml cross-domain policy vdb-entry, technical-description
VDB-308235 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, IOA) signature, permissions-required
Submit #564451 | PrivateGPT 0.6.2 CWE-942: Permissive Cross-domain Policy with Untrusted Domains third-party-advisory
https://gist.github.com/superboy-zjc/2a727cb0c1d468f21a91e0416d006ffe exploit