CVE-2024-31993
Mealie vulnerable to a GET-based SSRF in recipe image importer (GHSL-2023-227)
Mealie is a self hosted recipe manager and meal planner. Prior to 1.4.0, the scrape_image function will retrieve an image based on a user-provided URL, however the provided URL is not validated to point to an external location and does not have any enforced rate limiting. The response from the Mealie server will also vary depending on whether or not the target file is an image, is not an image, or does not exist. Additionally, when a file is retrieved the file may remain stored on Mealie’s file system as original.jpg under the UUID of the recipe it was requested for. If the attacker has access to an admin account (e.g. the default [email protected]), this file can then be retrieved. Note that if Mealie is running in a development setting this could be leveraged by an attacker to retrieve any file that the Mealie server had downloaded in this fashion without the need for administrator access. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.4.0.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Adjacent network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- High
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
6.2
Mealie vulnerable to a GET-based SSRF in recipe image importer (GHSL-2023-227)
Mealie is a self hosted recipe manager and meal planner. Prior to 1.4.0, the scrape_image function will retrieve an image based on a user-provided URL, however the provided URL is not validated to point to an external location and does not have any enforced rate limiting. The response from the Mealie server will also vary depending on whether or not the target file is an image, is not an image, or does not exist. Additionally, when a file is retrieved the file may remain stored on Mealie’s file system as original.jpg under the UUID of the recipe it was requested for. If the attacker has access to an admin account (e.g. the default [email protected]), this file can then be retrieved. Note that if Mealie is running in a development setting this could be leveraged by an attacker to retrieve any file that the Mealie server had downloaded in this fashion without the need for administrator access. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.4.0.
- Record
CVE-2024-31993- CVSS 3.1
- 6.2 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-918
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2024-29840
6.2
Mealie is a self hosted recipe manager and meal planner. Prior to 1.4.0, the scrape_image function will retrieve an image based on a user-provided URL, however the provided URL is not validated to point to an external location and does not have any enforced rate limiting. The response from the Mealie server will also vary depending on whether or not the target file is an image, is not an image, or does not exist. Additionally, when a file is retrieved the file may remain stored on Mealie’s file system as original.jpg under the UUID of the recipe it was requested for. If the attacker has access to an admin account (e.g. the default [email protected]), this file can then be retrieved. Note that if Mealie is running in a development setting this could be leveraged by an attacker to retrieve any file that the Mealie server had downloaded in this fashion without the need for administrator access. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.4.0.
- Record
EUVD-2024-29840- CVSS 3.1
- 6.2 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-03
NVD
6.2
Mealie is a self hosted recipe manager and meal planner. Prior to 1.4.0, the scrape_image function will retrieve an image based on a user-provided URL, however the provided URL is not validated to point to an external location and does not have any enforced rate limiting. The response from the Mealie server will also vary depending on whether or not the target file is an image, is not an image, or does not exist. Additionally, when a file is retrieved the file may remain stored on Mealie’s file system as original.jpg under the UUID of the recipe it was requested for. If the attacker has access to an admin account (e.g. the default [email protected]), this file can then be retrieved. Note that if Mealie is running in a development setting this could be leveraged by an attacker to retrieve any file that the Mealie server had downloaded in this fashion without the need for administrator access. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.4.0.
- Record
CVE-2024-31993- CVSS 3.1
- 6.2 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N - CVSS 3.1
- 4.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-918
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSV
6.2
Mealie vulnerable to a GET-based SSRF in recipe image importer (GHSL-2023-227)
Mealie is a self hosted recipe manager and meal planner. Prior to 1.4.0, the scrape_image function will retrieve an image based on a user-provided URL, however the provided URL is not validated to point to an external location and does not have any enforced rate limiting. The response from the Mealie server will also vary depending on whether or not the target file is an image, is not an image, or does not exist. Additionally, when a file is retrieved the file may remain stored on Mealie’s file system as original.jpg under the UUID of the recipe it was requested for. If the attacker has access to an admin account (e.g. the default [email protected]), this file can then be retrieved. Note that if Mealie is running in a development setting this could be leveraged by an attacker to retrieve any file that the Mealie server had downloaded in this fashion without the need for administrator access. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.4.0.
- Record
CVE-2024-31993- CVSS 3.1
- 6.2 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-918
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases, published | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, NVD, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2024-31993 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.2) in Mealie, published April 19, 2024. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.41%, the 35th percentile. No source names a fixed version.
References
securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2023-225_GHSL-2023-226_Mealie
github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie/pull/3368
github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie/commit/2a3463b7466bc297aede50046da9550d919ec56f
github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie/blob/ee121a12f8db33ecb4db5f8582f7ea9788d019e4/mealie/services/recipe/recipe_data_service.py
github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/31xxx/CVE-2024-31993.json
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-31993