CVE-2023-36281

criticalpriority · attend · 50EPSS 0.034 · 89 %ileexploit · PoCEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · PoC

Likely / severe?

3.44% (89th) EPSS

CVSS 9.8 · critical

Is it mine?

4 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

An issue in langchain v.0.0.171 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via a JSON file to load_prompt. This is related to __subclasses__ or a template.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.9

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondaryexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.9

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.19.3criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Psecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-94USprimaryCWE-94US

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

tagomaru/CVE-2023-36281PoC of CVE-2023-36281PoC · poc_in_github

affected products (4)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
langchain langchain= 0.0.171nvdUScpe:2.3:a:langchain:langchain:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
PyPI langchain< 0.0.171osvUSpkg:pypi/langchain
PyPI langchain< 0.0.312osvUSpkg:pypi/langchain

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-7gfq-f96f-g85jlangchain vulnerable to arbitrary code execution2023-08-22ghsa · osvUS
An issue in langchain v.0.0.171 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via the via the a json file to the `load_prompt` parameter. This is related to `__subclasses__` or a template.
PYSEC-2023-1512023-08-22vendor · osvUS
An issue in langchain v.0.0.171 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via the via the a json file to the load_prompt parameter.

also known as (6)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2023-08-22modified 2026-06-17

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references (9)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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