GHSA-g84q-54hf-36rg

AutoGPT bypass of the shell commands denylist settings

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Critical CVE-2024-6091

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	agpt	<= 0.5.1	no fix listed

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

A vulnerability in significant-gravitas/autogpt version 0.5.1 allows an attacker to bypass the shell commands denylist settings. The issue arises when the denylist is configured to block specific commands, such as `whoami` and `/bin/whoami`. An attacker can circumvent this restriction by executing commands with a modified path, such as `/bin/./whoami`, which is not recognized by the denylist.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6091 advisory
https://github.com/significant-gravitas/autogpt/commit/ef691359b774a1f9f80cf4f5ace9821967b718ed web
https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT package
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/agpt/PYSEC-2026-257.yaml web
https://huntr.com/bounties/8a742c13-bb5e-4bc9-8b86-049d8a386050 web
https://pypi.org/project/agpt web