Critical severity · published Oct 1, 2026
CVE-2026-51883
The knowledge base creation and document upload interfaces in Langchain-Chatchat 0.3.0;0.3.1 is vulnerable to path traversal
9.1
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The knowledge base creation and document upload interfaces in Langchain-Chatchat 0.3.0;0.3.1 is vulnerable to path traversal. An attacker can inject path traversal sequences (such as `..\`) into the `knowledge_base_name` parameter to write knowledge base content to arbitrary locations outside the configured knowledge base root directory.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 37% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known