GHSA-h9j7-5xvc-qhg5LowCVSS 3.7

langchain Server-Side Request Forgery vulnerability

Published
February 26, 2024
Last Modified
March 17, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

With the following crawler configuration:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as Soup

url = "https://example.com"
loader = RecursiveUrlLoader(
    url=url, max_depth=2, extractor=lambda x: Soup(x, "html.parser").text 
)
docs = loader.load()

An attacker in control of the contents of https://example.com could place a malicious HTML file in there with links like "https://example.completely.different/my_file.html" and the crawler would proceed to download that file as well even though prevent_outside=True.

https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/blob/bf0b3cc0b5ade1fb95a5b1b6fa260e99064c2e22/libs/community/langchain_community/document_loaders/recursive_url_loader.py#L51-L51

Resolved in https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/pull/15559

🎯 Affected products1

  • pip/langchain:< 0.1.0

🔗 References (7)