Description
There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:
- LangChain is a framework for building agents and LLM-powered applications. Prior to langchain-text-
splitters 1.1.2, HTMLHeaderTextSplitter.split_text_from_url() validated the initial URL using
validate_safe_url() but then performed the fetch with requests.get() with redirects enabled (the default).
Because redirect targets were not revalidated, a URL pointing to an attacker-controlled server could
redirect to internal, localhost, or cloud metadata endpoints, bypassing SSRF protections. The response
body is parsed and returned as Document objects to the calling application code. Whether this constitutes
a data exfiltration path depends on the application: if it exposes Document contents (or derivatives) back
to the requester who supplied the URL, sensitive data from internal endpoints could be leaked.
Applications that store or process Documents internally without returning raw content to the requester are
not directly exposed to data exfiltration through this issue. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.1.2.
(CVE-2026-41481)
Solution
Update the langchain-text-splitters library and its related packages to version 1.1.2 or later.
Plugin Details
Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security
Risk Information
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 10/3/2026
Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/16/2026