CVE-2026-72742 PUBLISHED

DSPy 3.3.0b1 Local File Read via Image/Audio Output Field Parsing

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 10.08.2026 Published: 11.08.2026 Updated: 11.08.2026

DSPy 3.3.0b1 contains a file exfiltration vulnerability in the Image and Audio output field adapters that allows attackers with influence over language model outputs to read arbitrary local files by injecting a filesystem path into the url field of a parsed Image or Audio typed output. The JSONAdapter and ChatAdapter parse untrusted language model completions through parse_value into TypeAdapter validation, which triggers encode_image or encode_audio to read and base64-encode any local file path via the os.path.isfile branch in image.py and audio.py, subsequently embedding the file contents into outgoing prompt messages sent to the attacker-controlled model endpoint.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 9.2

Product Status

Vendor Stanford NLP
Product DSPy
Versions Default: affected
  • affected from 0 to 3.3.0b1 (incl.)

Credits

  • George Chen finder

References

Problem Types

  • External Control of File Name or Path CWE