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CVE-2026-5973

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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.

Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS score
5.5 (v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Analyzed
Source identifier
Published
2026-04-09 20:16:29.143000
Last modified
2026-10-26 00:10:00.150000
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