Vulnerability · Published May 19, 2024 · Assigned by @huntr_ai

CVE-2024-4284Denial of Service in mintplex-labs/anything-llm

Medium 4.9

In plain English

A medium-severity uncontrolled resource consumption in mintplex-labs/anything-llm from mintplex-labs. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 47% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.0)4.9Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 53.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A vulnerability in mintplex-labs/anything-llm allows for a denial of service (DoS) condition through the modification of a user's `id` attribute to a value of 0. This issue affects the current version of the software, with the latest commit id `57984fa85c31988b2eff429adfc654c46e0c342a`. By exploiting this vulnerability, an attacker, with manager or admin privileges, can render a chosen account completely inaccessible. The application's mechanism for suspending accounts does not provide a means to reverse this condition through the UI, leading to uncontrolled resource consumption. The vulnerability is introduced due to the lack of input validation and sanitization in the user modification endpoint and the middleware's token validation logic. This issue has been addressed in version 1.0.0 of the software.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
mintplex-labs mintplex-labs/anything-llm unspecified – before 1.0.0

Weakness: CWE-400 · Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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