CVE-2026-42048

critical

Description

Langflow is a tool for building and deploying AI-powered agents and workflows. Prior to 1.9.0, Langflow is vulnerable to Path Traversal in the Knowledge Bases API (DELETE /api/v1/knowledge_bases). This occurs because user-supplied knowledge base names are concatenated directly into file paths without proper sanitization or boundary validation. An authenticated attacker can exploit this flaw to delete arbitrary directories anywhere on the server's filesystem, leading to data loss and potential service disruption. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.9.0.

References

https://github.com/langflow-ai/langflow/security/advisories/GHSA-9whx-c884-c68q

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-05-12

Updated: 2026-05-14

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 8.5

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.6

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

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00041