# CVE-2024-0795: Create user API role not enforced

> Attackers with admin or manager roles can create new admin users due to missing backend authorization checks, leading to privilege escalation.

- **Severity:** High 7.2 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 2 Mar 2024
- **Updated:** 15 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-78cj-mhpr-2qfm

## What is CVE-2024-0795?

CVE-2024-0795 is a high-severity vulnerability in Mintplexlabs Anythingllm, published on 2 Mar 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

If an attacked was given access to an instance with the admin or manager role there is no backend authentication that would prevent the attacked from creating a new user with an `admin` role and then be able to use this new account to have elevated privileges on the instance

Weakness: CWE-284 (Improper Access Control)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-0795?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Mintplexlabs Anythingllm.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-0795?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-0795 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-0795 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-0795 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in Mintplexlabs Anythingllm

- [CVE-2024-3025](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-3025/): Path Traversal in mintplex-labs/anything-llm (critical 9.9)
- [CVE-2024-0455](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-0455/): SSRF on AWS deployed instances of AnythingLLM via /metadata (critical 9.9)
- [CVE-2026-32626](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-32626/): AnythingLLM has a Streaming Phase XSS to RCE via LLM Response Injection (critical 9.7)
- [CVE-2024-3104](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-3104/): Remote Code Execution in mintplex-labs/anything-llm (critical 9.6)
- [CVE-2024-3149](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-3149/): SSRF in mintplex-labs/anything-llm (critical 9.6)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-0795 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-0795 is a high-severity vulnerability in Mintplexlabs Anythingllm, published on 2 Mar 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-0795 exists.

Affected product: Mintplexlabs Anythingllm. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-0795/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-0795/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-0795
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-0795
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-0795

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-0795/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.