GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-pw95-88fg-3j6f Langroid Allows XXE Injection via XMLToolMessage
HIGH
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- 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
- https://github.com/langroid/langroid/security/advisories/GHSA-pw95-88fg-3j6f web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-46726 advisory
- https://github.com/langroid/langroid/commit/36e7e7db4dd1636de225c2c66c84052b1e9ac3c3 web
- https://github.com/langroid/langroid package
- https://github.com/langroid/langroid/blob/df6227e6c079ec22bb2768498423148d6685acff/langroid/agent/xml_tool_message.py#L51-L52 web