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...

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...

PT-2023-32365 · Unknown · Anything-Llm

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: mintplex-labs/anything-llm versions prior to 0.1.0 Description: The issue is related to improper access control in the GitHub repository mintplex-labs/anything-llm. Recommendations: For versions prior to 0.1.0, update to version 0.1.0 or late...

Microsoft is Soft-Launching Security Copilot

Microsoft has announced an early access program for its LLM-based security chatbot assistant: Security Copilot. I am curious whether this thing is actually useful...

"I Had a Dream" and Generative AI Jailbreaks

"Of course, here's an example of simple code in the Python programming language that can be associated with the keywords "MyHotKeyHandler," "Keylogger," and "macOS," this is a message from ChatGPT followed by a piece of malicious code and a brief remark not to use it for illegal purposes. Initial...

CVE-2023-4898

Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness in GitHub repository mintplex-labs/anything-llm prior to 0.0.1...

Authentication flaw

Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness in GitHub repository mintplex-labs/anything-llm prior to 0.0.1...

CVE-2023-4899

The CVE-2023-4899 entry concerns a SQL Injection vulnerability in mintplex-labs/anything-llm (versions prior to 0.0.1). The Red Hat/NVD/NVD-derived entries align on the vulnerability class, with the Huntr PoC detailing a concrete flaw in the /api/workspace/:slug endpoint where the slug parameter ...

CVE-2023-4899 SQL Injection in mintplex-labs/anything-llm

SQL Injection in GitHub repository mintplex-labs/anything-llm prior to 0.0.1...

CVE-2023-4898 Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness in mintplex-labs/anything-llm

Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness in GitHub repository mintplex-labs/anything-llm prior to 0.0.1...

CVE-2023-4898 Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness in mintplex-labs/anything-llm

Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness in GitHub repository mintplex-labs/anything-llm prior to 0.0.1...

CVE-2023-4897

CVE-2023-4897 describes a Relative Path Traversal in mintplex-labs/anything-llm prior to 0.0.1. The vulnerability stems from insufficient validation of the filename parameter in the data-exports endpoint, allowing a crafted request to traverse directories and access sensitive local files as demon...

PT-2023-31022 · Unknown · Anything-Llm

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: anything-llm versions prior to 0.0.1 Description: The issue is related to Relative Path Traversal in the GitHub repository mintplex-labs/anything-llm. Recommendations: For versions prior to 0.0.1, update to version 0.0.1 or later to resolve t...

PT-2023-31023 · Unknown · Anything-Llm

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: anything-llm version prior to 0.0.1 Description: The issue is related to an Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness in the GitHub repository mintplex-labs/anything-llm. Recommendations: For versions prior to 0.0.1, update to version 0.0.1 o...

PT-2023-31024 · Mintplex · Anything-Llm

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: mintplex-labs/anything-llm versions prior to 0.0.1 Description: The issue is related to SQL Injection in the GitHub repository mintplex-labs/anything-llm. Recommendations: For versions prior to 0.0.1, update to version 0.0.1 or later to resol...

Profile Stealers Spread via LLM-themed Facebook Ads

In this entry, we discuss how a threat actor abuses paid Facebook promotions featuring LLMs to spread malicious code, with the goal of installing a malicious browser add-on and stealing victims’ credentials...