# CVE-2024-0243: Server-side Request Forgery In Recursive URL Loader

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-1509, GHSA-H9J7-5XVC-QHG5, PYSEC-2024-235
- Severity: CVSS 3.7 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.1.0
- Published: 2024-02-24 · Updated: 2025-04-22

## Affected

- langchain-ai langchain-ai/langchain: fixed in 0.1.0
- langchain (PyPI): fixed in 0.1.0
- langchain-exa (PyPI): fixed in 0.1.0

## Description

With the following crawler configuration: ```python from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as Soup url = "https://example.com" loader = RecursiveUrlLoader( url=url, max_depth=2, extractor=lambda x: Soup(x, "html.parser").text ) docs = loader.load() ``` An attacker in control of the contents of `https://example.com` could place a malicious HTML file in there with links like "https://example.completely.different/my_file.html" and the crawler would proceed to download that file as well even though `prevent_outside=True`. https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/blob/bf0b3cc0b5ade1fb95a5b1b6fa260e99064c2e22/libs/community/langchain_community/document_loaders/recursive_url_loader.py#L51-L51 Resolved in https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/pull/15559

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on langchain-ai langchain-ai/langchain, langchain, langchain-exa, upgrade to a fixed version (0.1.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://huntr.com/bounties/370904e7-10ac-40a4-a8d4-e2d16e1ca861
- https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/commit/bf0b3cc0b5ade1fb95a5b1b6fa260e99064c2e22
- https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/pull/15559

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