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CVE-2024-0550: Privileged User using traversal to read system files

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-02-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-23

Description

A user who is privileged already `manager` or `admin` can set their profile picture via the frontend API using a relative filepath to then user the PFP GET API to download any valid files. The attacker would have to have been granted privileged permissions to the system before executing this attack.

Affected products

• Mintplexlabs Anythingllm: before 1.0.0 — fixed in 1.0.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Mintplexlabs Anythingllm 1.0.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/mintplex-labs/anything-llm/commit/e1dcd5ded010b03abd6aa32d1bf0668a48e38e17
• https://huntr.com/bounties/c6afeb5e-f211-4b3d-aa4b-6bad734217a6
• https://github.com/mintplex-labs/anything-llm/commit/e1dcd5ded010b03abd6aa32d1bf0668a48e38e17
• https://huntr.com/bounties/c6afeb5e-f211-4b3d-aa4b-6bad734217a6

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