CVE-2025-68665

high

Description

LangChain is a framework for building LLM-powered applications. Prior to @langchain/core versions 0.3.80 and 1.1.8, and prior to langchain versions 0.3.37 and 1.2.3, a serialization injection vulnerability exists in LangChain JS's toJSON() method (and subsequently when string-ifying objects using JSON.stringify(). The method did not escape objects with 'lc' keys when serializing free-form data in kwargs. The 'lc' key is used internally by LangChain to mark serialized objects. When user-controlled data contains this key structure, it is treated as a legitimate LangChain object during deserialization rather than plain user data. This issue has been patched in @langchain/core versions 0.3.80 and 1.1.8, and langchain versions 0.3.37 and 1.2.3

References

https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/critical-langchain-core-vulnerability.html

https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchainjs/security/advisories/GHSA-r399-636x-v7f6

https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchainjs/releases/tag/langchain%401.2.3

https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchainjs/releases/tag/%40langchain%2Fcore%401.1.8

https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchainjs/commit/e5063f9c6e9989ea067dfdff39262b9e7b6aba62

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-12-23

Updated: 2025-12-29

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: 8.6

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00046