Langflow is a tool for building and deploying AI-powered agents and workflows. Prior to 1.9.0, Langflow is vulnerable to Path Traversal in the Knowledge Bases API (DELETE /api/v1/knowledge_bases). This occurs because user-supplied knowledge base names are concatenated directly into file paths without proper sanitization or boundary validation. An authenticated attacker can exploit this flaw to delete arbitrary directories anywhere on the server's filesystem, leading to data loss and potential service disruption. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.9.0.

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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-9whx-c884-c68q Langflow Knowledge Bases API is Vulnerable to Path Traversal
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Tue, 12 May 2026 18:15:00 +0000

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Description Langflow is a tool for building and deploying AI-powered agents and workflows. Prior to 1.9.0, Langflow is vulnerable to Path Traversal in the Knowledge Bases API (DELETE /api/v1/knowledge_bases). This occurs because user-supplied knowledge base names are concatenated directly into file paths without proper sanitization or boundary validation. An authenticated attacker can exploit this flaw to delete arbitrary directories anywhere on the server's filesystem, leading to data loss and potential service disruption. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.9.0.
Title Langflow: Path Traversal in Langflow Knowledge Bases API
Weaknesses CWE-22
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 9.6, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-12T17:35:27.688Z

Reserved: 2026-04-23T16:05:01.709Z

Link: CVE-2026-42048

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-05-12T18:17:23.780

Modified: 2026-05-12T18:17:23.780

Link: CVE-2026-42048

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Updated: 2026-05-12T19:45:15Z

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