GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI

GHSA-pw95-88fg-3j6f Langroid Allows XXE Injection via XMLToolMessage

HIGH Published 2025-05-05 Modified 2025-05-05 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2025-46726
Ecosystem
PyPI
Packages
langroid
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
Weaknesses
CWE-611
Reviewed
2025-05-05

Affected packages

• PyPI langroid: < 0.53.4 → fixed in 0.53.4

Description

Summary A LLM application leveraging `XMLToolMessage` class may be exposed to untrusted XML input that could result in DoS and/or exposing local files with sensitive information. Details `XMLToolMessage` uses `lxml` without safeguards: https://github.com/langroid/langroid/blob/df6227e6c079ec22bb2768498423148d6685acff/langroid/agent/xml_tool_message.py#L51-L52 `lxml` is vulnerable to quadratic blowup attacks and processes external entity declarations for local files by default. Check here: https://pypi.org/project/defusedxml/#python-xml-libraries PoC A typical Quadratic blowup XML payload looks like this: ```xml ]> &c; ``` Here, &a; expands to 10 characters, &b; expands to 100, and &c; expands to 1000, causing exponential memory usage and potentially crashing the application. Fix Langroid 0.53.4 initializes `XMLParser` with flags to prevent XML External Entity (XXE), billion laughs, and external DTD attacks by disabling entity resolution, DTD loading, and network access. https://github.com/langroid/langroid/commit/36e7e7db4dd1636de225c2c66c84052b1e9ac3c3

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2025-46726 Langroid is a framework for building large-language-model-powered applications. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference weakness

References