CVE-2026-50181 PUBLISHED

Langroid: Path traversal in the file tools allows read/write outside configured current directory

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 03.06.2026 Published: 09.07.2026 Updated: 09.07.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS Score: 7.1

Product Status

Vendor langroid
Product langroid
Versions
  • Version < 0.64.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') CWE
  • CWE-23: Relative Path Traversal CWE