Detections
Analytics
CVE-2024-1455
medium
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).
References
https://huntr.com/bounties/4353571f-c70d-4bfd-ac08-3a89cecb45b6
https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/commit/727d5023ce88e18e3074ef620a98137d26ff92a3