Mintplex-Labs anything-llm up to 1.12.x on Windows path.relative path traversal

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A vulnerability was found in Mintplex-Labs anything-llm up to 1.12.x on Windows. It has been classified as critical. This vulnerability affects the function path.relative. Performing a manipulation results in path traversal. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2026-48789. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in Mintplex-Labs anything-llm up to 1.12.x on Windows. It has been classified as critical. This affects the function path.relative. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

AnythingLLM is an application that turns pieces of content into context that any LLM can use as references during chatting. Prior to 1.13.0, on Windows, the document folder listing route can accept an encoded absolute Windows path that resolves outside the intended documents directory. The shared path containment helper rejects POSIX-style "../" traversal but does not reject Windows-style parent paths returned by path.relative(), such as "..". This vulnerability is fixed in 1.13.0.

The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-48789 since 05/22/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1006 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 1.13.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Artificial Intelligence Software

Vendor

• Mintplex-Labs

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• anything-llm

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• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11
• 1.12

Website

• Product: https://github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm/

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