Cato CTRL Threat Research: New Streamlit Vulnerability Enables Cloud Account Takeover Attack and Stock Market Dashboard Tampering
Imagine financial analysts watching stock prices suddenly drop. Dashboards show misaligned data, market confidence disappears, and trading screens across the NASDAQ turn red. But this time, the disruption isn’t caused by politics or economic shifts. It starts with a cyberattack. We reveal how a simple and overlooked flaw in Streamlit’s file upload feature, part of a widely used open-source framework for building stock market dashboards, could be used to cause this kind of financial chaos.