mintplex-labs anything-llm up to 0.x ID resource consumption

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in mintplex-labs anything-llm up to 0.x. This issue affects some unknown processing. Such manipulation of the argument ID with the input 0 leads to resource consumption. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-4284. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in mintplex-labs anything-llm up to 0.x. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block. The manipulation of the argument id with the input value 0 leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The advisory is available at huntr.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-4284 since 04/26/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are needed for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 1.0.0 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 1b35bcbeab10b77e6dbd263cceecf1b965a40789 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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• Artificial Intelligence Software

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• mintplex-labs

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• anything-llm

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• 0.x

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• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/mintplex-labs/anything-llm/

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