CVE-2024-7771 Denial of Service in mintplex-labs/anything-llm

Medium 6.5 Published 20 Mar 2025 Updated 20 Mar 2025

An attacker can crash the AnythingLLM instance by uploading an audio file with a very low sample rate, causing memory exhaustion during transcription.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2024-7771?

CVE-2024-7771 is a medium-severity denial of service 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 Dockerized version of mintplex-labs/anything-llm (latest, digest 1d9452da2b92) allows for a denial of service. Uploading an audio file with a very low sample rate causes the functionality responsible for transcribing it to crash the entire site instance. The issue arises from the localWhisper implementation, where resampling the audio file from 1 Hz to 16000 Hz quickly exceeds available memory, leading to the Docker instance being killed by the instance manager.

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-7771?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mintplexlabs Anythingllm.

How do I fix CVE-2024-7771?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-7771 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-2024-7771 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-7771 exists.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-q8pp-mmm3-9j9w.