CVE-2024-5216 Denial of Service in mintplex-labs/anything-llm
Attackers can cause denial of service by creating users with excessively long usernames, rendering the admin panel unresponsive.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-5216?
CVE-2024-5216 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Mintplexlabs Anythingllm, published on 25 Jun 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A vulnerability in mintplex-labs/anything-llm allows for a Denial of Service (DoS) condition due to uncontrolled resource consumption. Specifically, the issue arises from the application's failure to limit the size of usernames, enabling attackers to create users with excessively bulky texts in the username field. This exploit results in the user management panel becoming unresponsive, preventing administrators from performing critical user management actions such as editing, suspending, or deleting users. The impact of this vulnerability includes administrative paralysis, compromised security, and operational disruption, as it allows malicious users to perpetuate their presence within the system indefinitely, undermines the system's security posture, and degrades overall system performance.
Weakness: CWE-400
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-5216?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Mintplexlabs Anythingllm.
How do I fix CVE-2024-5216?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-5216 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2024-5216 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-5216 exists.
Other vulnerabilities in Mintplexlabs Anythingllm
- CVE-2024-3025 Path Traversal in mintplex-labs/anything-llm
- CVE-2024-0455 SSRF on AWS deployed instances of AnythingLLM via /metadata
- CVE-2026-32626 AnythingLLM has a Streaming Phase XSS to RCE via LLM Response Injection
- CVE-2024-3104 Remote Code Execution in mintplex-labs/anything-llm
- CVE-2024-3149 SSRF in mintplex-labs/anything-llm
Sources
Also known as GHSA-f8vg-5x7g-9fr8.