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

> An attacker with manager or admin privileges can cause a denial of service by setting a user's ID to 0, rendering the account inaccessible.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.9 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/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:** 19 May 2024
- **Updated:** 1 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-qjr6-p4j5-v4qx

## What is CVE-2024-4284?

CVE-2024-4284 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Mintplexlabs Anythingllm, published on 19 May 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### 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.

Weakness: CWE-400 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-4284?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Mintplexlabs Anythingllm.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-4284?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-4284 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-4284 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-4284 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-2024-4284 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-4284 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Mintplexlabs Anythingllm, published on 19 May 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-2024-4284 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-2024-4284/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-4284/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-4284
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-4284
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-4284

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Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.