NVIDIA Triton Model Repository Control Exposed
triton-model-control-exposed is a high severity check in the
ai category, written in yaml.
Its source is templates/ai/triton/triton-model-control-exposed.yaml in
cert-x-gen-templates.
What it checks
Section titled “What it checks”Detects an exposed NVIDIA Triton model repository control endpoint (/v2/repository/index). When model-control is enabled without proper access controls, attackers may load or modify models and potentially abuse path traversal issues (CVE-2023-31036).
Header
Section titled “Header”| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Id | triton-model-control-exposed |
| Severity | high |
| Language | yaml |
| Category | ai |
| Author | CERT-X-GEN Security Team |
| Template version | 1.0.0 |
| Confidence | 80 |
| CVSS | 8.6 |
| Weakness | CWE-22, CWE-306 |
| Tags | triton, nvidia, model-control, repository, path-traversal, unauth, cve-2023-31036 |
| 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 triton-model-control-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.

