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Unauthenticated Public Exposure in MultiAgent Accelerator Orchestrator

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
azure, python

Research direction

Start by reviewing the deployment configuration for orchestrator-service, travel-agent-service, and streamlit-ui-service, focusing on their public load balancer exposure. Trace the routes that permit anonymous task execution, data access, and response-queue changes. Done means the affected services no longer expose unauthenticated access and the reported unauthorized actions are prevented.

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Description

The vulnerability report identifies critical security flaws in the microsoft/MultiAgent-Accelerator, an open-source orchestration system. The root cause lies in the deployment of the orchestrator on a public load balancer without authentication, allowing anonymous access to all routes. This enables unauthorized task execution, cross-user data disclosure, and destruction of queued responses. Affected components include the orchestrator-service, travel-agent-service, and streamlit-ui-service, all configured as public load balancers without internal annotations or network policies. The vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary tasks, access sensitive user data, and cause denial of service by depleting the asynchronous response queue.

Dominant language
Python
Stars
8
Forks
3
Avg merge
8h 7m
Merged PRs (30d)
4

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