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.
History

Sat, 30 May 2026 03:30:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Fri, 29 May 2026 19:00:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Mintplexlabs anythingllm
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:mintplexlabs:anythingllm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Mintplexlabs anythingllm

Thu, 28 May 2026 22:45:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Mintplexlabs
Mintplexlabs anything-llm
Vendors & Products Mintplexlabs
Mintplexlabs anything-llm

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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.
Title AnythingLLM: RCE via ripgrep --pre argument injection in filesystem-search-files agent skill
Weaknesses CWE-77
CWE-88
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2026-05-28T21:19:51.965Z

Updated: 2026-05-30T02:22:53.743Z

Reserved: 2026-05-20T18:46:58.289Z

Link: CVE-2026-48116

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-05-30T02:22:49.518Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2026-05-28T22:17:01.390

Modified: 2026-05-30T04:17:22.667

Link: CVE-2026-48116

cve-icon Redhat

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