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MEDIUM4.2

PYSEC-2026-2561

Denial of service in langchain-community

Quick fix

PYSEC-2026-2561 — langchain-community: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'langchain-community>=0.2.5'

Details

Denial of service in `SitemapLoader` Document Loader in the `langchain-community` package, affecting versions below 0.2.5. The `parse_sitemap` method, responsible for parsing sitemaps and extracting URLs, lacks a mechanism to prevent infinite recursion when a sitemap URL refers to the current sitemap itself. This oversight allows for the possibility of an infinite loop, leading to a crash by exceeding the maximum recursion depth in Python. This vulnerability can be exploited to occupy server socket/port resources and crash the Python process, impacting the availability of services relying on this functionality.

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Affected packages

PyPI/langchain-community
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 0.2.5
Fixpip install --upgrade 'langchain-community>=0.2.5'

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