CVE-2026-40087CWE-1336

LangChain has incomplete f-string validation in prompt templates

Medium · published April 9, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
38.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

LangChain is a framework for building agents and LLM-powered applications. Prior to 0.3.84 and 1.2.28, LangChain's f-string prompt-template validation was incomplete in two respects. First, some prompt template classes accepted f-string templates and formatted them without enforcing the same attribute-access validation as PromptTemplate. In particular, DictPromptTemplate and ImagePromptTemplate could accept templates containing attribute access or indexing expressions and subsequently evaluate those expressions during formatting. Second, f-string validation based on parsed top-level field names did not reject nested replacement fields inside format specifiers. In this pattern, the nested replacement field appears in the format specifier rather than in the top-level field name. As a result, earlier validation based on parsed field names did not reject the template even though Python formatting would still attempt to resolve the nested expression at runtime. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.3.84 and 1.2.28.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00454 · 38.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-1336 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements Used in a Template Engine
Published
2026-04-09T19:34Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 APR 19:34Z
    LangChain has incomplete f-string validation in prompt templates
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