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CVE-2026-55405GHSA-2MFG-CC43-9PCJ

LangChain4j: SQL injection via metadata filters in langchain4j-mariadb and langchain4j-pgvector

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.2.1-beta8, 1.5.1-beta11, 1.11.8-beta19, 1.16.3-beta26
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

LangChain4j is a Java library for building LLM-powered applications on the JVM. Prior to 1.2.1-beta8, 1.5.1-beta11, 1.11.8-beta19, and 1.16.3-beta26, the MariaDB and pgvector embedding stores build metadata-filter SQL by string-concatenating filter keys, and in MariaDB string values, directly into the query without adequate escaping. A crafted metadata key in EmbeddingSearchRequest.filter() can break out of its SQL context and inject arbitrary SQL into the statements executed by the stores' search and removeAll(Filter) operations, enabling blind data exfiltration, denial of service via sleep functions, and deletion of arbitrary rows through removeAll(Filter). This issue is fixed in langchain4j-mariadb and langchain4j-pgvector versions 1.2.1-beta8, 1.5.1-beta11, 1.11.8-beta19, and 1.16.3-beta26.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • langchain4j langchain4j

    fixed in 1.2.1-beta8; From 1.3.0-beta9 · fixed in 1.5.1-beta11; From 1.6.0-beta12 · fixed in 1.11.8-beta19; From 1.12.1-beta21 · fixed in 1.16.3-beta26

  • dev.langchain4j:langchain4j-mariadbMaven

    fixed in 1.2.1-beta8

  • dev.langchain4j:langchain4j-mariadbMaven

    From 1.3.0-beta9 · fixed in 1.5.1-beta11

  • dev.langchain4j:langchain4j-mariadbMaven

    From 1.6.0-beta12 · fixed in 1.11.8-beta19

  • dev.langchain4j:langchain4j-mariadbMaven

    From 1.12.1-beta21 · fixed in 1.16.3-beta26

  • dev.langchain4j:langchain4j-pgvectorMaven

    fixed in 1.2.1-beta8

  • dev.langchain4j:langchain4j-pgvectorMaven

    From 1.3.0-beta9 · fixed in 1.5.1-beta11

  • dev.langchain4j:langchain4j-pgvectorMaven

    From 1.6.0-beta12 · fixed in 1.11.8-beta19

  • dev.langchain4j:langchain4j-pgvectorMaven

    From 1.12.1-beta21 · fixed in 1.16.3-beta26

References 7

GitHub · langchain4j/langchain4j