CVE-2024-5216: Denial of Service in mintplex-labs/anything-llm

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2024-06-25 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-400

Description

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.

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

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