CVE-2025-45691

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2026-03-05 · updated 2026-07-15
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

An Arbitrary File Read vulnerability exists in the ImageTextPromptValue class in Exploding Gradients RAGAS v0.2.3 to v0.2.14. The vulnerability stems from improper validation and sanitization of URLs supplied in the retrieved_contexts parameter when handling multimodal inputs.

Affected products

vibrantlabsai RAGAS: from 0.2.3 through 0.2.14

References

https://adithyanak.com/ragas-v0214-arbitrary-file-read-vulnerability
https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/blob/e97886ac976465efb60e5949c5d69baf30cc811d/src/ragas/prompt/multi_modal_prompt.py#L202
https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/pull/1559
https://github.com/vibrantlabsai/ragas/pull/1991
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-45691
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2444875
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2025/cve-2025-45691.json

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