Pierluigi Paganini
May 06, 2025
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a Langflow flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-3248 (CVSS score of 9.8), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.
Langflow is a popular tool used for building agentic AI workflows.
CVE-2025-3248 is a code injection vulnerability in the /api/v1/validate/code endpoint. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit it by sending crafted HTTP requests to execute arbitrary code. The flaw impacts versions prior to 1.3.0.
Researchers from cybersecurity firm Horizon3.ai discovered the vulnerability and pointed out that it is easily exploitable.
“Remote code execution is easy now – just stick the payload into a decorator. Here’s an example of landing a Python reverse shell, targeting a vulnerable host at 10.0.220.200.” reads a post published by Horizon3.ai.
“Interactive RCE is possible by raising an Exception from the decorator.”
After the CVE was published, another researcher published a POC exploit for this vulnerability that abused default arguments in Python functions. These are also modeled as expressions in Python and get executed when a function is defined.
Langflow users should upgrade to v1.3.0+ or restrict access, as more than 500 instances are exposed on the Internet, according to Censys. Older versions allow code execution via an unauthenticated flaw.
“The vulnerable code is present in the earliest versions of Langflow dating back two years, and from our testing it appears most, if not all, versions prior to 1.3.0 are exploitable. The patch puts the vulnerable endpoint behind authentication.” concludes the report. “Technically this vulnerability can still be exploited to escalate privileges from a regular user to a Langflow superuser, but that is already possible without this vulnerability too. We’re not really clear why Langflow distinguishes between superusers and regular users when all regular users can execute code on the server by design.”
According to Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01: Reducing the Significant Risk of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities, FCEB agencies have to address the identified vulnerabilities by the due date to protect their networks against attacks exploiting the flaws in the catalog.
Experts also recommend private organizations review the Catalog and address the vulnerabilities in their infrastructure.
CISA orders federal agencies to fix these vulnerabilities by May 26, 2025.
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