CVE-2023-5833
Published: 30 October 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-5833 is a high-severity Improper Access Control (CWE-284) vulnerability in Mintplexlabs Anythingllm. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 27.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
This vulnerability is AI-related — categorised as Enterprise AI Assistants; in the Privacy and Disclosure risk domain; MITRE ATLAS techniques in scope: AI Model Inference API Access (AML.T0040), LLM Prompt Injection (AML.T0051), Manipulate AI Model (AML.T0018).
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-58116
Vulnerability details
Improper Access Control in GitHub repository mintplex-labs/anything-llm prior to 0.1.0.
- CWE(s)
AI Security AnalysisAI
- AI Category
- Enterprise AI Assistants
- Risk Domain
- Privacy and Disclosure
- OWASP Top 10 for LLMs 2025
- None mapped
- Classification Reason
- The vulnerability affects mintplex-labs/anything-llm, an open-source AI application for interacting with LLMs and documents, classified as an enterprise AI assistant platform.
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Improper access control in the Anything-LLM web application enables exploitation of a public-facing application, allowing unauthorized access.
MITRE ATLAS TechniquesAI
MITRE ATLAS techniques
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
The access control policy and procedures directly mandate and enforce proper access control mechanisms across the organization.
Device lock enforces restricted access until re-authentication, directly reducing unauthorized use of active sessions.
Supervision and review of access control activities directly detects and remediates improper access configurations or usages.
Explicitly identifying and documenting actions permitted without identification or authentication enforces proper access control boundaries by defining justified exceptions.
By automatically labeling outputs with security attributes, the control supports attribute-based enforcement and reduces exploitability of improper access control weaknesses.
Associating and retaining security attributes with data directly supports enforcement of access control decisions across storage, processing, and transmission.
Requiring prior authorization for each remote access type prevents improper access control over remote connections.
Requiring authorization of wireless access before allowing connections enforces proper access control for this access method.