CVE-2024-1455
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-03-26 14:03
Modified
2024-08-15 15:56
Severity ?
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Billion Laughs Attack leading to DoS in langchain-ai/langchain
References
security@huntr.devhttps://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/commit/727d5023ce88e18e3074ef620a98137d26ff92a3
security@huntr.devhttps://huntr.com/bounties/4353571f-c70d-4bfd-ac08-3a89cecb45b6
Impacted products
langchain-ailangchain-ai/langchain
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