CVE-2024-5216: A vulnerability in mintplex-labs/anything-llm allows for a Denial of Service (DoS) condition due to uncontrolled resource consumption. Specifically, the issue…

PriorityP340high7.5CVSS 3.0

AVNACLPRNUINSUCNINAH

EPSS

0.58%

43.5th percentile

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.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
mintplex-labs	mintplex-labs_anything-llm	>= unspecified < 1.0.0	1.0.0
mintplexlabs	anythingllm	< 1.0.0	1.0.0

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.07.5HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

vendor_redhat7.0HIGH

Stop checking back — get the weekly exploitation signal.

Every Monday: what got weaponized or added to CISA KEV in the last seven days — each CVE cross-linked to its PoC, Nuclei template, and detection rule. Free, one email a week, unsubscribe in one click.