chroma-api-exposure: ChromaDB - Unauthenticated API Exposure

2026-05-09 ChromaDB PoC Public

Description

ChromaDB runs without authentication by default, exposing the API edpoint to anyone and allowing unauthorized access to read.

PoC

id: chroma-api-exposure

info:
  name: ChromaDB - Unauthenticated API Exposure
  author: pussycat0x,DevamShah
  severity: medium
  description: |
    ChromaDB runs without authentication by default, exposing the API edpoint to anyone and allowing unauthorized access to read.
  reference:
    - https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma
    - https://docs.trychroma.com/docs/run-chroma/chroma-server/security
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 2
    shodan-query: '"ChromaDB"'
    product: chromadb
    vendor: chroma-core
  tags: chromadb,exposure,misconfig,unauth,ai,ml,vectordb

http:
  - raw:
      - |
        GET /api/v2/tenants/default_tenant/databases/default_database/collections HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Accept: application/json

      - |
        GET /api/v1/collections HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Accept: application/json

    stop-at-first-match: true

    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - status_code == 200
          - contains_all(body, "configuration_json","hnsw_configuration","log_position")
        condition: and
# digest: 490a00463044022028302e2cd1831fa746528fcca287cf7bcc567e170f6204201609d316188eab8d022031224a12fbc38f99b9ff7e71c36b5632a5b7dcc804799919918432c055982a61:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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