# CVE-2024-27564: dirk1983/chatgpt - RCE

> Live exploitation tracking for CVE-2024-27564 by the CrowdSec Live Exploit Tracker, built from real-world attack data crowdsourced from CrowdSec's global network.

Page: https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2024-27564

## Key facts

- **Exploitation phase:** Background Noise. Continuous low-level scanning or exploitation attempts are observed, mostly opportunistic and automated.
- **CVSS score:** 6.5
- **Public exploit available:** Yes
- **Affected products:** dirk1983/chatgpt pictureproxy.php
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-918 (Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF))

## Description

A Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in pictureproxy.php of dirk1983/chatgpt commit f9f4bbc allows attackers to force the application to make arbitrary requests via injection of crafted URLs into the urlparameter.

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2024-27564](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2024-27564) is a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in the picture proxy functionality of certain web applications, enabling attackers to coerce the server into making arbitrary web requests by manipulating image retrieval URLs.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 27th of February 2025.

According to CrowdSec data, while opportunistic exploitation dominates, a portion of threat actors trying to exploit CVE-2024-27564 apply basic targeting methods such as port or service detection. This indicates emerging patterns of selective targeting.
Telemetry from the CrowdSec network also shows that exploitation activity for CVE-2024-27564 remains steady week-over-week. Attack volumes are consistent with long-term trends, indicating sustained interest from threat actors. CVE-2024-27564 continues to be an active part of the threat landscape and will likely remain this way for the forseeable future.

Exploitation attempts are characterized by access to URLs containing `/pictureproxy.php?url=file://`.

## Timeline

- 2024-03-05: CVE Published. CVE-2024-27564 is published to NVD.
- 2025-02-27: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2024-27564 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.
- 2025-02-27: CrowdSec First Seen. CrowdSec observes in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2024-27564 for the first time.

## References

- https://github.com/dirk1983/chatgpt/issues/114
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2024/CVE-2024-27564.yaml
- https://web.archive.org/web/20250320031248/https://mm1.ltd/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20250320032559/https://github.com/dirk1983/chatgpt/blob/f9f4bbc99eed7210b291ec116bd57b3d8276bee5/pictureproxy.php

## Live exploitation data

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