langchain-community

CVE-2024-2965

CVE-2024-2965 is a medium-severity uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in langchain-community (pip), affecting versions < 0.2.5. It is fixed in 0.2.5.

Key facts
CVSS score
4.2
Medium
Attack vector
Physical
Issuing authority
GitHub Advisory Database
Affected package
langchain-community
Fixed in
0.2.5
Disclosed
2024

Summary

Denial of service in SitemapLoader Document Loader in the langchain-community package, affecting versions below 0.2.5. 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.

Impact

What is uncontrolled resource consumption?

Crafted input forces the application to consume excessive CPU, memory, or other resources, degrading or denying service. Typical impact: denial of service.

Severity and exposure

CVE-2024-2965 has a CVSS score of 4.2 (Medium). The vector is requires physical access, no privileges required, and no user interaction. A CVSS score reflects the worst-case severity of the vulnerability, not your specific exposure. Whether this affects your application depends on whether the vulnerable code is present and reachable in your environment.

A fixed version is available (0.2.5). Upgrading removes the vulnerable code path.

Affected versions

pip

  • langchain-community (< 0.2.5)
  • langchain (>= 0, < 0.2.5)

Security releases

  • langchain-community → 0.2.5 (pip)
  • langchain → 0.2.5 (pip)
Kodem intelligence

Severity tells you how bad this could be in the worst case. It does not tell you whether you are exposed. Exploitability and impact are functions of runtime truth: whether the vulnerable code is present, reachable, and actually executes in your application. A vulnerable package can sit in your dependency tree and never run.

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Remediation advice

Upgrade the following packages to resolve this vulnerability:

  • Upgrade langchain-community to 0.2.5 or later
  • Upgrade langchain to 0.2.5 or later

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Frequently asked questions about CVE-2024-2965

What is CVE-2024-2965?

CVE-2024-2965 is a medium-severity uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in langchain-community (pip), affecting versions < 0.2.5. It is fixed in 0.2.5. Crafted input forces the application to consume excessive CPU, memory, or other resources, degrading or denying service.

How severe is CVE-2024-2965?

CVE-2024-2965 has a CVSS score of 4.2 (Medium). This score reflects the worst-case severity of the vulnerability, not your specific exposure. Whether it represents real risk in your environment depends on whether the vulnerable code is present and reachable.

Which packages are affected by CVE-2024-2965?
  • langchain-community (pip) (versions < 0.2.5)
  • langchain (pip) (versions >= 0, < 0.2.5)
Is there a fix for CVE-2024-2965?

Yes. CVE-2024-2965 is fixed in 0.2.5. Upgrade to this version or later.

Is CVE-2024-2965 exploitable, and should I be worried?

Whether CVE-2024-2965 is exploitable in your environment depends on whether the vulnerable code is present and reachable. A CVSS score is a worst-case rating; it does not account for your specific deployment, configuration, or usage patterns. Kodem, an Intelligent Application Security platform, uses runtime intelligence to show which vulnerabilities actually execute in production, so you can focus on the ones that represent real risk. Get a demo

What actually determines whether CVE-2024-2965 is exploitable, and how bad it is?

Exploitability and impact are not fixed properties of a CVE. They depend on runtime truth: whether the vulnerable code is present, reachable, and actually executes in your application. A high CVSS score on a dependency that never runs is not the same as real risk. Kodem, an Intelligent Application Security platform, uses runtime intelligence to reveal which vulnerabilities actually execute in production, so teams prioritize the ones that genuinely matter.

How do I fix CVE-2024-2965?
  • Upgrade langchain-community to 0.2.5 or later
  • Upgrade langchain to 0.2.5 or later

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