CVE-2024-6091: Shell Command Denylist Bypass in significant-gravitas/autogpt

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2024-09-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-78

Description

A vulnerability in significant-gravitas/autogpt version 0.5.1 allows an attacker to bypass the shell commands denylist settings. The issue arises when the denylist is configured to block specific commands, such as 'whoami' and '/bin/whoami'. An attacker can circumvent this restriction by executing commands with a modified path, such as '/bin/./whoami', which is not recognized by the denylist.

Affected products

Agpt Autogpt Classic: 0.5.1

References

https://github.com/significant-gravitas/autogpt/commit/ef691359b774a1f9f80cf4f5ace9821967b718ed
https://huntr.com/bounties/8a742c13-bb5e-4bc9-8b86-049d8a386050

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