ThreatsDay: Android Spyware, PLC Attacks, AI Image Prompt Injection + 12 More Stories

Most of this week's trouble came dressed as something useful. A package stole data. A fake extension opened remote access. A safety app became spyware. An image gave hidden orders to an AI agent. Other threats hid in open systems, weak code, and normal network traffic. The threats change every...

LangChain has incomplete f-string validation in prompt templates

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 cou...

langchain-core allows unauthorized users to read arbitrary files from the host file system

A vulnerability in langchain-core versions =0.1.17,=0.2.0,=0.3.0,0.3.15 allows unauthorized users to read arbitrary files from the host file system. The issue arises from the ability to create langchaincore.prompts.ImagePromptTemplate's and by extension langchaincore.prompts.ChatPromptTemplate's...

PYSEC-2026-1517 langchain-core allows unauthorized users to read arbitrary files from the host file system

A vulnerability in langchain-core versions =0.1.17,=0.2.0,=0.3.0,0.3.15 allows unauthorized users to read arbitrary files from the host file system. The issue arises from the ability to create langchaincore.prompts.ImagePromptTemplate's and by extension langchaincore.prompts.ChatPromptTemplate's...

CVE-2026-34225

Open WebUI is a self-hosted artificial intelligence platform designed to operate entirely offline. Versions 0.7.2 and below contain a Blind Server Side Request Forgery in the functionality that allows editing an image via a prompt. The affected function performs a GET request to a user-provided U...

CVE-2026-40087

A flaw was found in LangChain. A missing validation of f-string prompt templates in some classes, specifically in DictPromptTemplate and ImagePromptTemplate, can cause the evaluation of attribute access or indexing expressions during template formatting. Also, f-string validation based on parsed...

CVE-2026-40087

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...

EUVD-2026-21063

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...

GHSA-5CHR-FJJV-38QV langchain-core allows unauthorized users to read arbitrary files from the host file system

A vulnerability in langchain-core versions =0.1.17,=0.2.0,=0.3.0,0.3.15 allows unauthorized users to read arbitrary files from the host file system. The issue arises from the ability to create langchaincore.prompts.ImagePromptTemplate's and by extension langchaincore.prompts.ChatPromptTemplate's...

Exposure of Sensitive System Information to an Unauthorized Control Sphere

Overview langchain-core is a Building applications with LLMs through composability Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Exposure of Sensitive System Information to an Unauthorized Control Sphere in the ImagePromptTemplate in image.py, which can be instantiated with input variables...

CVE-2024-10940 Exposure of Sensitive System Information via ImagePromptTemplate in langchain-ai/langchain

A vulnerability in langchain-core versions =0.1.17,=0.2.0,=0.3.0,0.3.15 allows unauthorized users to read arbitrary files from the host file system. The issue arises from the ability to create langchaincore.prompts.ImagePromptTemplate's and by extension langchaincore.prompts.ChatPromptTemplate's...

PT-2025-12081

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions langchain-core versions 0.1.17 through 0.1.52 langchain-core versions 0.2.0 through 0.2.42 langchain-core versions 0.3.0 through 0.3.14 Description A vulnerability allows unauthorized users to read arbitrary files from the host file system. Th...