Arbitrary file deletion via avatar path traversal
Published Mar 20, 2025 · Updated Oct 15, 2025
Path traversal in LibreChat before 0.7.5 allows remote authenticated users to delete arbitrary server files through avatar upload requests. The agent and assistant avatar handlers trust client-supplied metadata, while deleteLocalFile joins its filepath to the uploads root and unlinks it without checking that the resolved path remains in the user's upload directory. A valid account and an avatar replacement request are required; successful traversal can remove application, user, or system files and interrupt service.
Summary
What happened
Path traversal in LibreChat before 0.7.5 allows remote authenticated users to delete arbitrary server files through avatar upload requests. The agent and assistant avatar handlers trust client-supplied metadata, while deleteLocalFile joins its filepath to the uploads root and unlinks it without checking that the resolved path remains in the user's upload directory. A valid account and an avatar replacement request are required; successful traversal can remove application, user, or system files and interrupt service.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-10361
- Published
- Mar 20, 2025
- Updated
- Oct 15, 2025
- Vendor
- Danny Avila
- Product
- LibreChat
- Classifications
- CWE-22, T1485
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Mar 20, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Oct 15, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=unspecified <0.7.5
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Public exploit references
- Huntr LibreChat arbitrary file deletion proof of conceptproof of concept · unverified
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