Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-0436

Medium

Published: 26 February 2024

Published
26 February 2024
Modified
27 March 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0021 43.9th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-0436 is a medium-severity Observable Discrepancy (CWE-203) vulnerability in Mintplexlabs Anythingllm. Its CVSS base score is 5.9 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Brute Force (T1110); ranked at the 43.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

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Vulnerability details

Theoretically, it would be possible for an attacker to brute-force the password for an instance in single-user password protection mode via a timing attack given the linear nature of the `!==` used for comparison. The risk is minified by the…

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additional overhead of the request, which varies in a non-constant nature making the attack less reliable to execute

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1110 Brute Force Credential Access
Adversaries may use brute force techniques to gain access to accounts when passwords are unknown or when password hashes are obtained.
Why these techniques?

The vulnerability in password comparison enables timing attacks that facilitate brute-force password attacks (T1110).

MITRE ATLAS TechniquesAI

MITRE ATLAS techniques

AML.T0040: AI Model Inference API Access

Affected Assets

mintplexlabs
anythingllm
≤ 1.0.0

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.

addresses: CWE-203

Misdirection can normalize or falsify responses to eliminate observable discrepancies that aid reconnaissance.

addresses: CWE-203

Observable discrepancies in system behavior can be modulated to create covert storage or timing channels; the required analysis detects and constrains such avenues.

addresses: CWE-203

Prevents attackers from using observable differences in error responses to infer internal system details or state.

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