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CVE-2026-5973

A vulnerability was found in FoundationAgents MetaGPT up to 0.8.1.

MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 2.51%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.51%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

A vulnerability was found in FoundationAgents MetaGPT up to 0.8.1. Impacted is the function get_mime_type of the file metagpt/utils/common.py. The manipulation results in os command injection. The attack can be executed remotely. The exploit has been made public and could be used. The project was informed of the problem early through a pull request but has not reacted yet.

CVSS 4.0
5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
EPSS
2.51% probability · 84th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-77, CWE-78
Affected
deepwisdom/metagpt
Source
cna@vuldb.com

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.