# CVE-2026-50181: Langroid: Path traversal in the file tools allows read/write outside configured current directory

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-2578, GHSA-FG23-3346-88F5
- Severity: CVSS 7.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Fixed in: 0.64.0
- Published: 2026-07-09 · Updated: 2026-07-14

## Affected

- langroid: fixed in 0.64.0
- langroid (PyPI): fixed in 0.64.0

## Description

Langroid is a framework for building large-language-model-powered applications. Prior to version 0.64.0, Langroid's `ReadFileTool` and `WriteFileTool` appear to treat `curr_dir` as the intended working-directory boundary for file operations. However, the tools only change the process working directory to `curr_dir` and then operate on the user-supplied `file_path` without resolving and enforcing that the final path remains inside `curr_dir`. As a result, a tool caller can supply path traversal sequences such as `../secret.txt` to read files outside the configured current directory, or `../written_by_tool.txt` to write files outside that directory. This can impact applications that expose Langroid file tools to an LLM agent, user-controlled tool call, or delegated coding/documentation agent while relying on `curr_dir` to restrict file access to a project/workspace directory. Version 0.64.0 patches the issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on langroid, upgrade to a fixed version (0.64.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/langroid/langroid/security/advisories/GHSA-fg23-3346-88f5
- https://github.com/langroid/langroid/commit/56e2756ecab70a70a7e6edbee2f2187b8484683e
- https://github.com/chaitanyagarware/CVE-2026-50181

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