CVE-2024-5216 (GCVE-0-2024-5216)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-06-25 10:29 – Updated: 2024-08-01 21:03
VLAI
Title
Denial of Service in mintplex-labs/anything-llm
Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-06-26 13:56 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
@huntr_ai CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 65/100 over 38 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
mintplex-labs mintplex-labs/anything-llm Affected: unspecified , < 1.0.0 (custom)
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mintplexlabs anythingllm Affected: 0 , < 1.0.0 (custom)
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