CVE-2024-5998: LangChain pickle deserialization of untrusted data

# CVE-2024-5998: LangChain pickle deserialization of untrusted data

https://gcdradar.vercel.app/incidents/cve-2024-5998-langchain-pickle-deserialization-of-untrusted · AIR-2024-0167 · closed 2024-09-17

- Lane: Patch now
- Severity: 2 (Disclosed vulnerability)
- Fix status: Fix status unknown
- First reported: 2024-09-17
- AI role: Attack on AI
- Products: LangChain
- CVE ids: CVE-2024-5998
- CVSS: 8.4

## Summary

A vulnerability in LangChain allows for insecure pickle deserialization of untrusted data via the FAISS.deserialize_from_bytes function. This flaw enables the execution of arbitrary commands on the affected system.

## What to do

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

## Latest updates

- 2024-09-17: CVE-2024-5998: A vulnerability in the FAISS.deserialize_from_bytes function of langchain-ai/langchain allows for pickle deserialization of… (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-5998)
- 2024-09-17: CVE-2024-5998: LangChain pickle deserialization of untrusted data (https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f2jm-rw3h-6phg)

## Sources

- 2024-09-17 GitHub Advisory Database: CVE-2024-5998: LangChain pickle deserialization of untrusted data https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f2jm-rw3h-6phg
- 2024-09-17 NVD: CVE-2024-5998: A vulnerability in the FAISS.deserialize_from_bytes function of langchain-ai/langchain allows for pickle deserialization of… https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-5998

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