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CVE-2023-29374

Status: ModifiedCritical (9.8)—
Severity9.8Critical · CVSS 3.1
Exploitation probability40 %higher than 99% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitNot knownno public code found

In LangChain through 0.0.131, the LLMMathChain chain allows prompt injection attacks that can execute arbitrary code via the Python exec method.

CVSS

Base score
9.8
Version
3.1
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
40 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs
99
Score date
10/21/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

Langchain — Langchain

CWEs

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