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title: "CVE-2024-22416: Cross-Site Request Forgery on any API call in pyLoad may lead to admin privilege escalation"
url: https://erroneo.us/security/cve/CVE-2024-22416/
description: "CVE-2024-22416 (pyload-ng (PyPI)): pyLoad is a free and open-source Download Manager written in pure Python. The pyload API allows any API call to be made…"
type: vulnerability-record
section: "Security Digest"
date_published: 2024-01-17
date_modified: 2026-06-28
publisher: erroneo.us
author: erroneo.us Security Desk
cve: "CVE-2024-22416"
kev: false
cvss: 9.4
epss: 0.00948
license: All rights reserved. Quote with attribution and a link.
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# CVE-2024-22416: Cross-Site Request Forgery on any API call in pyLoad may lead to admin privilege escalation

**Signal:** Critical and remotely reachable. No known exploitation yet, but it is network-reachable without credentials. (Computed from CISA KEV, EPSS and CVSS; not an editorial verdict.)

## Should you act?

- No confirmed exploitation. It is not in CISA’s KEV catalog and CISA’s SSVC assessment records no known exploitation. That can change quickly after a public write-up; re-check if you are affected.
- EPSS 0.9% , percentile 61: FIRST’s model estimates a 0.9% chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days, higher than 61% of all scored CVEs (moderate). EPSS is a probability, not a verdict.
- Only applies if your dependency tree includes pyload-ng (PyPI) < 0.5.0b3.dev78, fixed in 0.5.0b3.dev78 . Check your lockfile, including transitive dependencies.

## What it is

pyLoad is a free and open-source Download Manager written in pure Python. The pyload API allows any API call to be made using GET requests. Since the session cookie is not set to SameSite: strict, this opens the library up to severe attack possibilities via a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attack. As a result any API call can be made via a CSRF attack by an unauthenticated user. This issue has been addressed in release 0.5.0b3.dev78. All users are advised to upgrade.

## Affected packages

- PyPI `pyload-ng` < 0.5.0b3.dev78 → fixed: 0.5.0b3.dev78

## Affected products (CVE record)

- pyload pyload: < 0.5.0b3.dev78

## Severity

- GitHub_M CVSS 3.1: 9.7 `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H`
- GitHub CVSS 4.0: 9.4 `CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H`

## Exploitation

- CISA KEV: not listed (no confirmed in-the-wild exploitation known to CISA).
- CISA SSVC assessment: exploitation none , automatable yes , technical impact partial .
- FIRST EPSS (model of 2026-10-21): 0.95% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days; percentile 61.

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory GHSA-pgpj-v85q-h5fm](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pgpj-v85q-h5fm)
- [CVE.org record CVE-2024-22416](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-22416)
- [NVD entry CVE-2024-22416](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-22416)
- [github.com](https://github.com/pyload/pyload/security/advisories/GHSA-pgpj-v85q-h5fm)
- [github.com](https://github.com/pyload/pyload/commit/1374c824271cb7e927740664d06d2e577624ca3e)
- [github.com](https://github.com/pyload/pyload/commit/c7cdc18ad9134a75222974b39e8b427c4af845fc)
- [github.com](https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/pyload-ng/PYSEC-2024-17.yaml)

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Source page: https://erroneo.us/security/cve/CVE-2024-22416/ · Security Digest: https://erroneo.us/security/ · More: https://erroneo.us/llms.txt