Description
AnythingLLM is an application that turns pieces of content into context that any LLM can use as references during chatting. Prior to 1.13.0, the filesystem-search-files agent skill passes its LLM-controlled pattern parameter to ripgrep as a positional argument without a -- end-of-options separator. ripgrep parses any argument that starts with - as an option, so a pattern of --pre=/bin/sh turns ripgrep into a script executor: it runs /bin/sh <file> for every file it walks. An attacker who can chat with an agent on a deployment with the filesystem plugin enabled (the default in the official Docker image) can use this, together with the sibling filesystem-write-text-file skill, to run arbitrary commands inside the AnythingLLM server container. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.13.0.
Affected products
mintplexlabs: anythingllm
References3
- github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm/security/advisories/GHSA-… ExploitMitigationVendor Advisory
- github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm/security/advisories/GHSA-… ExploitMitigationVendor Advisory
- github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm/commit/94ed62d320df1a06c2… Patch
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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8.8
HIGH
Score source: NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 31 · as of 15 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-77CWE-88
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