Threats Tagged 'cve-2025-6985'

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 container release includes multiple security fixes addressing vulnerabilities such as an XML External Entity (XXE) issue in langchain-text-splitters, insecure temporary file handling in run-llama/llama_index, potential partial directory traversal via archive extraction, and potential SQL injection in Django QuerySet methods on MySQL and MariaDB. These vulnerabilities affect the container components of the platform and have been addressed in an updated release. Additional bug fixes improve installation stability and API data gathering.

The HTMLSectionSplitter class in langchain-text-splitters version 0.3.8 is vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) attacks due to unsafe XSLT parsing. This vulnerability arises because the class allows the use of arbitrary XSLT stylesheets, which are parsed using lxml.etree.parse() and lxml.etree.XSLT() without any hardening measures. In lxml versions up to 4.9.x, external entities are resolved by default, allowing attackers to read arbitrary local files or perform outbound HTTP(S) fetches. In lxml versions 5.0 and above, while entity expansion is disabled, the XSLT document() function can still read any URI unless XSLTAccessControl is applied. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to gain read-only access to any file the LangChain process can reach, including sensitive files such as SSH keys, environment files, source code, or cloud metadata. No authentication, special privileges, or user interaction are required, and the issue is exploitable in default deployments that enable custom XSLT.

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