# CVE-2025-57760: Langflow Vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via CLI Superuser Creation

- Also known as: PYSEC-2025-243, GHSA-4GV9-MP8M-592R, PYSEC-2026-1526
- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.5.0, 0.5.1, 1.5.1
- Published: 2025-08-25 · Updated: 2025-08-25

## Affected

- langflow-ai langflow: through 1.5.0
- langflow (PyPI): fixed in 1.5.0
- langflow-base (PyPI): fixed in 0.5.1
- langflow (PyPI): fixed in 1.5.1

## Description

Langflow is a tool for building and deploying AI-powered agents and workflows. A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Langflow containers where an authenticated user with RCE access can invoke the internal CLI command langflow superuser to create a new administrative user. This results in full superuser access, even if the user initially registered through the UI as a regular (non-admin) account. A patched version has not been made public at this time.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on langflow-ai langflow, langflow, langflow-base, upgrade to a fixed version (1.5.0, 0.5.1, 1.5.1) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/langflow-ai/langflow/security/advisories/GHSA-4gv9-mp8m-592r
- https://github.com/langflow-ai/langflow/commit/c188ec113c9ca46154ad01d0eded1754cc6bef97
- http://github.com/langflow-ai/langflow/pull/9152

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