Ollama Unauthenticated /api/generate Access
ollama-unauth-api-generate is a high severity check in the
ai category, written in yaml.
Its source is templates/ai/ollama/detect-unauthenticated-access-apigenerate.yaml in
cert-x-gen-templates.
What it checks
Section titled “What it checks”Detects unauthenticated access to the Ollama API endpoint /api/generate.
This endpoint, when exposed without authentication, allows arbitrary prompt
generation and could lead to abuse or data leakage. The check sends a simple
prompt and verifies if a valid generation response is returned.
Header
Section titled “Header”| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Id | ollama-unauth-api-generate |
| Severity | high |
| Language | yaml |
| Category | ai |
| Author | CERT-X-GEN Automated Generator |
| Template version | 1.0.0 |
| Confidence | 95 |
| CVSS | 8.6 |
| Weakness | CWE-306 |
| Tags | ollama, unauth, api, abuse, security |
| 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.
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 ollama-unauth-api-generateThe 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.