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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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-04-09 | Published 2026-04-09 | Updated 2026-04-14 | Assigner VulDB




MEDIUM: 6.9CVSS: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
HIGH: 7.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:R
HIGH: 7.3CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:R
7.5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:POC/RL:ND/RC:UR

Problem types

OS Command Injection

Command Injection

Product status

0.8.0
affected

0.8.1
affected

Timeline

2026-04-09:Advisory disclosed
2026-04-09:VulDB entry created
2026-04-09:VulDB entry last update

Credits

Eric-d (VulDB User) reporter

VulDB CNA Team coordinator

References

vuldb.com/vuln/356527 (VDB-356527 | FoundationAgents MetaGPT common.py get_mime_type os command injection) vdb-entry technical-description

vuldb.com/vuln/356527/cti (VDB-356527 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, TTP, IOA)) signature permissions-required

vuldb.com/submit/791755 (Submit #791755 | FoundationAgents MetaGPT 0.8.1 OS Command Injection (CWE-78)) third-party-advisory

github.com/FoundationAgents/MetaGPT/issues/1930 exploit issue-tracking

github.com/FoundationAgents/MetaGPT/pull/1983 issue-tracking patch

github.com/FoundationAgents/MetaGPT/ product

cve.org (CVE-2026-5973)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-5973)

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