CVE-2024-21513: langchain-experimental vulnerable to arbitrary code execution

# CVE-2024-21513: langchain-experimental vulnerable to arbitrary code execution

https://gcdradar.vercel.app/incidents/cve-2024-21513-langchain-experimental-vulnerable-to-arbitrar · AIR-2024-0149 · closed 2024-07-15

- Lane: Patch now
- Severity: 2 (Disclosed vulnerability)
- Fix status: Fix status unknown
- First reported: 2024-07-15
- AI role: Attack on AI
- Products: langchain-experimental
- CVE ids: CVE-2024-21513
- CVSS: 9

## Summary

Certain versions of langchain-experimental are vulnerable to arbitrary code execution when retrieving database values due to unsafe eval usage. Attackers can exploit this if they control input prompts on servers configured with VectorSQLDatabaseChain.

## What to do

No action recorded; read the sources below and the vendor's advisory.

## Latest updates

- 2024-07-15: CVE-2024-21513: Versions of the package langchain-experimental from 0.0.15 and before 0.0.21 are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution when… (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-21513)
- 2024-07-15: CVE-2024-21513: langchain-experimental vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution (https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cgcg-p68q-3w7v)

## Sources

- 2024-07-15 GitHub Advisory Database: CVE-2024-21513: langchain-experimental vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cgcg-p68q-3w7v
- 2024-07-15 NVD: CVE-2024-21513: Versions of the package langchain-experimental from 0.0.15 and before 0.0.21 are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution when… https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-21513

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