# CVE-2024-10109: Incorrect Authorization in mintplex-labs/anything-llm

> Low-privilege users can access sensitive API endpoints to modify model configurations, causing API key leakage and chat denial of service.

- **Severity:** High 8.3 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 20 Mar 2025
- **Updated:** 20 Mar 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-5jmj-h3c5-682w

## What is CVE-2024-10109?

CVE-2024-10109 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Mintplexlabs Anythingllm, published on 20 Mar 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A vulnerability in the mintplex-labs/anything-llm repository, as of commit 5c40419, allows low privilege users to access the sensitive API endpoint "/api/system/custom-models". This access enables them to modify the model's API key and base path, leading to potential API key leakage and denial of service on chats.

Weakness: CWE-863 (Incorrect Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-10109?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Mintplexlabs Anythingllm.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-10109?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-10109 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-10109 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-10109 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-2024-10109 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-10109 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Mintplexlabs Anythingllm, published on 20 Mar 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-10109 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-2024-10109/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10109/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-10109
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-10109
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-10109

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10109/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.