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Medium · 5.9 CVE-2026-72917 EUVD-2026-55845

AnythingLLM: Password recovery accepts one recovery code twice after whitespace normalization

Published Aug 10, 2026 · Updated Aug 12, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

AnythingLLM is an application that turns pieces of content into context that any LLM can use as references during chatting. From 1.0.0 to 1.15.0, AnythingLLM's unauthenticated account-recovery flow in server/utils/PasswordRecovery/index.js uses recoverAccount() to deduplicate the raw recoveryCodes values before trimming them, so one valid code submitted twice with different surrounding whitespace can satisfy the two-code check. Each normalized value can also match the same stored hash instead of consuming a distinct hash. An attacker who knows the target username and one recovery code can call POST /api/system/recover-account in multi-user mode, receive a password-reset token, and use POST /api/system/reset-password to take over the account, including an administrator account.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Mintplex-Labs anything-llm Affected versions >= 1.0.0, <= 1.15.0 —

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