CVE-2023-43791Label Studio has Hardcoded Django `SECRET_KEY` that can be Abused to Forge Session Tokens
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 1.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 24% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- YesPublic exploitsa reference or SSVC says so
Description
Label Studio is a multi-type data labeling and annotation tool with standardized output format. There is a vulnerability that can be chained within the ORM Leak vulnerability to impersonate any account on Label Studio. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to escalate their privileges from a low privilege user to a Django Super Administrator user. The vulnerability was found to affect versions before `1.8.2`, where a patch was introduced.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 48 days later
· 48 days later
Published
- 10 months later
· 10 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.6% · top 24% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
- affected <= 1.8.1
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIlabel-studioGHSA-f475-x83m-rx5m (opens in a new tab)
References
References4
- https://github.com/HumanSignal/label-studio/security/advisories/GHSA-f475-x83m-rx5m (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/HumanSignal/label-studio/pull/4690 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/HumanSignal/label-studio/commit/3d06c5131c15600621e08b06f07d976887cde81b (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/HumanSignal/label-studio/releases/tag/1.8.2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-0107 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-f475-x83m-rx5m (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2023-43791)Record last updated .