CVE-2024-5211 Information

Description

A path traversal vulnerability in mintplex-labs/anything-llm allowed a manager to bypass the normalizePath() function intended to defend against path traversal attacks. This vulnerability enables the manager to read delete or overwrite the ‘anythingllm.db’ database file and other files stored in the ‘storage’ directory such as internal communication keys and .env secrets. Exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to application compromise denial of service (DoS) attacks and unauthorized admin account takeover. The issue stems from improper validation of user-supplied input in the process of setting a custom logo for the app which can be manipulated to achieve arbitrary file read deletion or overwrite and to execute a DoS attack by deleting critical files required for the application’s operation.

Reference

https://huntr.com/bounties/38f282cb-7226-435e-9832-2d4a102dad4b https://github.com/mintplex-labs/anything-llm/commit/e208074ef4c240fe03e4147ab097ec3b52b97619