Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting langchain package, versions [,0.0.307)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    1.16% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-LANGCHAIN-5880430
  • published 4 Sep 2023
  • disclosed 1 Sep 2023
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade langchain to version 0.0.307 or higher.

Overview

langchain is a Building applications with LLMs through composability

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution due to use of the evaluate() function in the numexpr library. An attacker can send arbitrary commands to the underlying eval() function by incorporating them in a malicious prompt.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

9.8 critical