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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-40087 EUVD-2026-21063GHSA-926x-3r5x-gfhwPYSEC-2026-2563

LangChain has incomplete f-string validation in prompt templates

Published Apr 9, 2026 · Updated Apr 14, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

LangChain is a framework for building agents and LLM-powered applications. Prior to 0.3.84 and 1.2.28, LangChain's f-string prompt-template validation was incomplete in two respects. First, some prompt template classes accepted f-string templates and formatted them without enforcing the same attribute-access validation as PromptTemplate. In particular, DictPromptTemplate and ImagePromptTemplate could accept templates containing attribute access or indexing expressions and subsequently evaluate those expressions during formatting. Second, f-string validation based on parsed top-level field names did not reject nested replacement fields inside format specifiers. In this pattern, the nested replacement field appears in the format specifier rather than in the top-level field name. As a result, earlier validation based on parsed field names did not reject the template even though Python formatting would still attempt to resolve the nested expression at runtime. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.3.84 and 1.2.28.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
langchain-ai langchain < 0.3.83, >= 1.0.0a1, < 1.2.28 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling open-webui 0.8.12-r3 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI langchain-core < 0.3.84 0.3.84 GHSA-926x-3r5x-gfhw
PyPI langchain-core >= 1.0.0a1, < 1.2.28 1.2.28 GHSA-926x-3r5x-gfhw
PyPI langchain-core < 0.3.84 · >= 1.0.0a1, < 1.2.28 0.3.84, 1.2.28 PYSEC-2026-2563

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