CVE-2025-68478: Arbitrary file creation vulnerability in Langflow

# CVE-2025-68478: Arbitrary file creation vulnerability in Langflow

https://gcdradar.vercel.app/incidents/cve-2025-68478-arbitrary-file-creation-vulnerability-in-lang · AIR-2025-0047 · closed 2025-12-19

- Lane: Patch now
- Severity: 2 (Disclosed vulnerability)
- Fix status: Fix status unknown
- First reported: 2025-12-19
- AI role: Attack on AI
- Products: Langflow
- CVE ids: CVE-2025-68478
- CVSS: 7.1

## Summary

Langflow allowed absolute paths to be specified when serializing flow objects into JSON, leading to arbitrary file overwrite. The flaw was addressed in version 1.7.0.

## What to do

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

## Latest updates

- 2025-12-19: CVE-2025-68478: External Control of File Name or Path in Langflow (https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f43r-cc68-gpx4)
- 2025-12-19: CVE-2025-68478: Langflow is a tool for building and deploying AI-powered agents and workflows. (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68478)

## Sources

- 2025-12-19 NVD: CVE-2025-68478: Langflow is a tool for building and deploying AI-powered agents and workflows. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68478
- 2025-12-19 GitHub Advisory Database: CVE-2025-68478: External Control of File Name or Path in Langflow https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f43r-cc68-gpx4

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