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Authorization Bypass in MLflow AJAX Endpoint

Type: advisorySources: OSV

MLflow is vulnerable to an authorization bypass affecting the AJAX endpoint used to download saved model artifacts. Due to missing access‑control validation, a user without permissions to a given experiment can directly query this endpoint and retrieve model artifacts they are not authorized to access. This issue affects MLflow version through 3.10.1

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Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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CVEs
CVE-2026-33866
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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Updated in this feed
5 Nov 2026, 06:00 UTC · Revision 1

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Authorization Bypass in MLflow AJAX Endpoint

core-osv · Original source

Published 7 Apr 2026, 12:57 UTC

MLflow is vulnerable to an authorization bypass affecting the AJAX endpoint used to download saved model artifacts. Due to missing access‑control validation, a user without permissions to a given experiment can directly query this endpoint and retrieve model artifacts they are not authorized to access. This issue affects MLflow version through 3.10.1

osv:CVE-2026-33866
Complete source record
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