CVE-2024-2965CWE-674

Denial-of-Service in LangChain SitemapLoader in langchain-ai/langchain

Medium · published June 6, 2024

CVSS v3.0
4.2
EPSS
0%
Percentile
22.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerability exists in the `SitemapLoader` class of the `langchain-ai/langchain` repository, affecting all versions. The `parse_sitemap` method, responsible for parsing sitemaps and extracting URLs, lacks a mechanism to prevent infinite recursion when a sitemap URL refers to the current sitemap itself. This oversight allows for the possibility of an infinite loop, leading to a crash by exceeding the maximum recursion depth in Python. This vulnerability can be exploited to occupy server socket/port resources and crash the Python process, impacting the availability of services relying on this functionality.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
4.2 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00304 · 22.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-674 · Uncontrolled Recursion
Published
2024-06-06T18:52Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 JUN 18:52Z
    Denial-of-Service in LangChain SitemapLoader in langchain-ai/langchain
    cvelistv5