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CVE-2026-5973: FoundationAgents MetaGPT · OS Command Injection

Affects FoundationAgents MetaGPTSource CVE Database V5

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Public exploit available · CVSS 6.9 Medium.

Data as of 29 Oct 2026, 19:04 UTC

CVSS 4.0 base score
6.9Medium
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
EPSS
2.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 84% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
CVSS: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

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 9 Apr 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: evidence found.

    CVSS exploit maturity: proof of concept public

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), CVSS vector, the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 29 Oct 2026.

What to do

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
FoundationAgentsMetaGPTAffected
  • =0.8.0
  • =0.8.1
Fixed in–
GitHubfoundationagents/MetaGPTpkg:github/foundationagents/MetaGPTOther threatsAffected
  • =0.8.0
  • =0.8.1
Fixed in–

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AI-suggested

Until a patch is released, consider restricting network access to the vulnerable service and applying any available application-level input validation or sandboxing as temporary mitigations.

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.

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