InvokeAI Unauthenticated Model Install Endpoint
invokeai-model-install-exposed is a critical severity check in the
ai category, written in yaml.
Its source is templates/ai/invokeai/invokeai-model-install-exposed.yaml in
cert-x-gen-templates.
What it checks
Section titled “What it checks”Detects an exposed InvokeAI /api/v2/models/install endpoint that allows unauthenticated model downloads and loading. In vulnerable versions (InvokeAI 5.3.1-5.4.2), this can lead to RCE via unsafe torch.load deserialization (CVE-2024-12029).
Header
Section titled “Header”| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Id | invokeai-model-install-exposed |
| Severity | critical |
| Language | yaml |
| Category | ai |
| Author | CERT-X-GEN Security Team |
| Template version | 1.0.0 |
| Confidence | 85 |
| CVSS | 9.8 |
| Weakness | CWE-306, CWE-502 |
| Tags | invokeai, ai, rce, deserialization, model-install, unauth, cve-2024-12029 |
| Target kind | not recorded |
| Oracle | not recorded |
The file declares cve_ids, http, remediation as well. Those are not tabled above; read the
source for what they carry.
References
Section titled “References”Declared in the header. cxg parses @references and then discards it, and
nothing at scan time reads it, so this is the only place the links a
template cites are surfaced.
- https://www.offsec.com/blog/cve-2024-12029/
- https://github.com/invoke-ai/invokeai/commit/756008dc5899081c5aa51e5bd8f24c1b3975a59e
- https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/notes/serialization.html#security
Run it
Section titled “Run it”To see what the copy on your machine says about itself, and to confirm it is installed at all:
cxg template info invokeai-model-install-exposedThe id it prints is the one to pass anywhere a template is selected. See
cxg template for the rest of
the subcommand, Scan a target for running
a scan, and
A match is not a finding for how
to read what comes back.
Related
Section titled “Related”- Template catalog is the whole corpus.
- ai is the rest of this category.
- Templates by weakness class groups checks by the defect they look for.
- Contribute a template is the route from a check you needed and could not find to a merged one.