3.7
LOW
CVE-2024-0243
Apache Langchain Community RecursiveUrlLoader HTML Injection Vulnerability
Description

With the following crawler configuration: ```python from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as Soup url = "https://example.com" loader = RecursiveUrlLoader( url=url, max_depth=2, extractor=lambda x: Soup(x, "html.parser").text ) docs = loader.load() ``` An attacker in control of the contents of `https://example.com` could place a malicious HTML file in there with links like "https://example.completely.different/my_file.html" and the crawler would proceed to download that file as well even though `prevent_outside=True`. https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/blob/bf0b3cc0b5ade1fb95a5b1b6fa260e99064c2e22/libs/community/langchain_community/document_loaders/recursive_url_loader.py#L51-L51 Resolved in https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/pull/15559

INFO

Published Date :

Feb. 26, 2024, 4:27 p.m.

Last Modified :

March 13, 2024, 9:15 p.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

No

Impact Score :

2.7

Exploitability Score :

0.6
Affected Products

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ID Vendor Product Action
1 Langchain langchain
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Resource
https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/commit/bf0b3cc0b5ade1fb95a5b1b6fa260e99064c2e22
https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/pull/15559
https://huntr.com/bounties/370904e7-10ac-40a4-a8d4-e2d16e1ca861

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The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2024-0243 vulnerability over time.

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  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Mar. 13, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference huntr.dev https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/pull/15559 [No types assigned]
  • CVE Received by [email protected]

    Feb. 26, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description With the following crawler configuration: ```python from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as Soup url = "https://example.com" loader = RecursiveUrlLoader( url=url, max_depth=2, extractor=lambda x: Soup(x, "html.parser").text ) docs = loader.load() ``` An attacker in control of the contents of `https://example.com` could place a malicious HTML file in there with links like "https://example.completely.different/my_file.html" and the crawler would proceed to download that file as well even though `prevent_outside=True`. https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/blob/bf0b3cc0b5ade1fb95a5b1b6fa260e99064c2e22/libs/community/langchain_community/document_loaders/recursive_url_loader.py#L51-L51 Resolved in https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/pull/15559
    Added Reference huntr.dev https://huntr.com/bounties/370904e7-10ac-40a4-a8d4-e2d16e1ca861 [No types assigned]
    Added Reference huntr.dev https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/commit/bf0b3cc0b5ade1fb95a5b1b6fa260e99064c2e22 [No types assigned]
    Added CWE huntr.dev CWE-918
    Added CVSS V3 huntr.dev AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
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