CVE-2024-3569: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

A Denial of Service DoS vulnerability exists in the mintplex-labs/anything-llm repository when the application is running in 'just me' mode with a password. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by making a request to the endpoint using the validatedRequest middleware with a specially crafte...

CVE-2024-3101: Improper Input Validation

In mintplex-labs/anything-llm, an improper input validation vulnerability allows attackers to escalate privileges by deactivating 'Multi-User Mode'. By sending a specially crafted curl request with the 'multiusermode' parameter set to false, an attacker can deactivate 'Multi-User Mode'. This acti...

PT-2024-26638 · Mintplex · Anything-Llm

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: mintplex-labs/anything-llm repository affected versions not specified Description: A Denial of Service DoS issue exists when the application is running in 'just me' mode with a password. An attacker can exploit this by making a request to the...

CVE-2024-3570: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

A stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability exists in the chat functionality of the mintplex-labs/anything-llm repository, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript in the context of a user's session. By manipulating the ChatBot responses, an attacker can inject malicious scripts to...

CVE-2024-3283: Improperly Controlled Modification of Dynamically-Determined Object Attributes

A vulnerability in mintplex-labs/anything-llm allows users with manager roles to escalate their privileges to admin roles through a mass assignment issue. The '/admin/system-preferences' API endpoint improperly authorizes manager-level users to modify the 'multiusermode' system variable, enabling...

PT-2024-23722 · Unknown · Anything-Llm

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: mintplex-labs/anything-llm affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to improper input validation, allowing attackers to escalate privileges by deactivating 'Multi-User Mode'. This can be achieved by sending a speciall...

CVE-2024-3025: Relative Path Traversal

mintplex-labs/anything-llm is vulnerable to path traversal attacks due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in the logo filename functionality. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability by manipulating the logo filename to reference files outside of the restricted directory. This can...

GHSA-Q84M-RMW3-4382 LangChain's XMLOutputParser vulnerable to XML Entity Expansion

The XMLOutputParser in LangChain uses the etree module from the XML parser in the standard python library which has some XML vulnerabilities; see: https://docs.python.org/3/library/xml.html This primarily affects users that combine an LLM or agent with the XMLOutputParser and expose the component...

LangChain's XMLOutputParser vulnerable to XML Entity Expansion

The XMLOutputParser in LangChain uses the etree module from the XML parser in the standard python library which has some XML vulnerabilities; see: https://docs.python.org/3/library/xml.html This primarily affects users that combine an LLM or agent with the XMLOutputParser and expose the component...

CVE-2024-1455

CVE-2024-1455 concerns a Billion Laughs Attack (XML External Entity) affecting the langchain-ai/langchain repository. Connected sources indicate the vulnerability centers on the XMLOutputParser using the standard Python etree XML parser, enabling an attacker to nest entities in XML to exhaust CPU...

Researchers Highlight Google's Gemini AI Susceptibility to LLM Threats

Google's Gemini large language model LLM is susceptible to security threats that could cause it to divulge system prompts, generate harmful content, and carry out indirect injection attacks. The findings come from HiddenLayer, which said the issues impact consumers using Gemini Advanced with Goog...

A Taxonomy of Prompt Injection Attacks

Researchers ran a global prompt hacking competition, and have documented the results in a paper that both gives a lot of good examples and tries to organize a taxonomy of effective prompt injection strategies. It seems as if the most common successful strategy is the "compound instruction attack,...

Function Calling in Java and Spring AI using the latest Mistral AI API

UPDATE: As of March 13, 2024, Mistral AI has integrated support for parallel function calling into their large model, a feature that was absent at the time of this blog's initial publication. Mistral AI, a leading developer of open-source large language models, unveiled the addition of Function...

This Week in Spring - March 5th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another exciting roundup of This Week in Spring! I expect many of you are reading this for the first time, especially with Facebook and Instagram being down. People have been exploring all the other lesser-known corners of the web, looking for their daily "doom scroll....

CVE-2024-0798 Privilege Escalation in mintplex-labs/anything-llm

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in mintplex-labs/anything-llm, allowing users with 'default' role to delete documents uploaded by 'admin'. Despite the intended restriction that prevents 'default' role users from deleting admin-uploaded documents, an attacker can exploit this...

CVE-2024-0798: Least Privilege Violation

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in mintplex-labs/anything-llm, allowing users with 'default' role to delete documents uploaded by 'admin'. Despite the intended restriction that prevents 'default' role users from deleting admin-uploaded documents, an attacker can exploit this...

Data Exfiltration Using Indirect Prompt Injection

Interesting attack on a LLM: In Writer, users can enter a ChatGPT-like session to edit or create their documents. In this chat session, the LLM can retrieve information from sources on the web to assist users in creation of their documents. We show that attackers can prepare websites that, when a...

CVE-2023-5833

The connected Huntr document provides concrete details for CVE-2023-5833: an improper access control flaw in mintplex-labs/anything-llm prior to 0.1.0 that allows overwriting backend environment variables via the /api/system/update-env endpoint. The vulnerability arises from how KEY_MAPPING expos...

CVE-2023-5833 Improper Access Control in mintplex-labs/anything-llm

Improper Access Control in GitHub repository mintplex-labs/anything-llm prior to 0.1.0...

CVE-2023-5832

CVE-2023-5832 affects mintplex-labs/anything-llm prior to 0.1.0. Root cause: improper input validation in the HTTP API that handles a filename parameter, enabling path traversal and, in some reports, arbitrary file deletion (PoC shows deletion of files like ../../server/storage/anythingllm.db). I...