CVE-2024-1455
Billion Laughs Attack leading to DoS in langchain-ai/langchain
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 5.9 Medium
- Published
- Mar 26, 2024
- Updated
- Aug 15, 2024
- Reserved
- Feb 12, 2024
Description
A vulnerability in the langchain-ai/langchain repository allows for a Billion Laughs Attack, a type of XML External Entity (XXE) exploitation. By nesting multiple layers of entities within an XML document, an attacker can cause the XML parser to consume excessive CPU and memory resources, leading to a denial of service (DoS).
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 5.9 Medium | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | @huntr_ai |
Weaknesses
- CWE-776 Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
langchain-ai/langchainlangchain-ai |
|
References
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