CVE-2026-119978
Full vulnerability record from the local CVENow database.
Description
Flowise through 3.1.4 contains a sandbox escape vulnerability that allows authenticated users to execute OS commands by abusing allowlisted langchain and mammoth modules when ALLOW_BUILTIN_DEP=true. Attackers can submit JavaScript to /api/v1/node-custom-function that writes a file into the mammoth package via LocalFileStore and requires it, escaping vm2 as the Flowise process user.
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS score
9.0
(v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Deferred
Source identifier
Published
2026-10-30 18:17:27.577000
Last modified
2026-10-30 18:17:27.710000
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"sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]",
"published": "2026-10-30T18:17:27.577",
"lastModified": "2026-10-30T18:17:27.710",
"vulnStatus": "Deferred",
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}
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{
"source": "[email protected]",
"affectedData": [
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"vendor": "FlowiseAI",
"product": "Flowise",
"defaultStatus": "unaffected",
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"packageURL": "pkg:github/FlowiseAI/Flowise",
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"url": "https://github.com/FlowiseAI/Flowise",
"source": "[email protected]"
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"url": "https://github.com/FlowiseAI/Flowise/blob/a65f81bb43ef66d3ce734bf0dff4223ae8041c95/packages/components/src/utils.ts#L1733",
"source": "[email protected]"
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"source": "[email protected]"
}
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}