AutoGPT: Denial of Service (DoS) via Resource Exhaustion in text templating features
Description
AutoGPT is a workflow automation platform for creating, deploying, and managing continuous artificial intelligence agents. In versions prior to 0.6.52, the Fill Text Template block is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack. While the backend implements a SandboxedEnvironment to prevent unauthorized attribute access (e.g., blocking __class__), it fails to limit the computational complexity or execution time of the expressions. An attacker can input computationally expensive Python/Jinja2 expressions that consume the server's CPU and memory, leading to a complete system hang or crash. In multi-tenant or self-hosted environments, this results in a complete service outage and "noisy neighbor" effects that require manual administrative intervention to recover. This issue has been fixed in version 0.6.52.
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Affected products
1- Range: <0.6.52
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References
2- github.com/Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT/releases/tag/autogpt-platform-beta-v0.6.52mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT/security/advisories/GHSA-ppw9-h7rv-gwq9mitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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