CVE-2025-45691

high

Description

An Arbitrary File Read vulnerability exists in the ImageTextPromptValue class in Exploding Gradients RAGAS v0.2.3 to v0.2.14. The vulnerability stems from improper validation and sanitization of URLs supplied in the retrieved_contexts parameter when handling multimodal inputs.

References

https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2025/cve-2025-45691.json

https://github.com/vibrantlabsai/ragas/pull/1991

https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/pull/1559

https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/blob/e97886ac976465efb60e5949c5d69baf30cc811d/src/ragas/prompt/multi_modal_prompt.py#L202

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2444875

https://adithyanak.com/ragas-v0214-arbitrary-file-read-vulnerability

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-45691

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-03-05

Updated: 2026-06-30

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: High

CVSS v4

Base Score: 8.7

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00053