RAGAS has an Arbitrary File Read vulnerability

published 2026-03-05 8 mo ago modified 2026-07-15 3 mo ago also GHSA-v2xr-wvrv-p969 , PYSEC-2026-3047 , EUVD-2025-208315

cvss: 7.5; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.6%; EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 49%
public exploits: 0; none known

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.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 links 3

pypi ragas 0.3.0-rc1

github.com/vibrantlabsai/ragas@b284337 commit
github.com/explodinggradients/ragas#1559 pull request
github.com/vibrantlabsai/ragas#1991 pull request

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-45691 updated 2026-06-28 cvss 7.5

ragas: arbitrary file read via improper URL validation in multimodal inputs

Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-llama-stack-core-rhel9, rhoai/odh-trustyai-ragas-lls-provider-dsp-rhel9
not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 8 mo ago (2026-03-06)

Exploit prediction

0.61% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 49% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

github.com https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/pull/1559 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
github.com https://github.com/vibrantlabsai/ragas/pull/1991 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
adithyanak.com https://adithyanak.com/ragas-v0214-arbitrary-file-read-vulnerability referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CISA ADP	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CNA	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
OSV	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
GitHub	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
pypi	ragas	>=0.2.3, <0.3.0-rc1	0.3.0-rc1

Affected products

Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI)

Classification

Weakness

CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
CWE-918 Server-Side Request Forgery
CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

github.com /explodinggradients/ragas/pull/1559
web, exploit, issue-tracking, patch
github.com /vibrantlabsai/ragas/pull/1991
web, exploit, issue-tracking, patch, vendor-advisory
github.com /vibrantlabsai/ragas/commit/b28433709cbedbb531db79dadcfbdbd3aa6adcb0
web
adithyanak.com /ragas-v0214-arbitrary-file-read-vulnerability
web, exploit, third-party-advisory
github.com /explodinggradients/ragas/blob/e97886ac976465efb60e5949c5d69baf30cc811d/src/ragas/prompt/multi_modal_prompt.py
web, product
access.redhat.com /security/cve/CVE-2025-45691
vdb-entry
bugzilla.redhat.com /show_bug.cgi?id=2444875
issue-tracking
security.access.redhat.com /data/csaf/v2/vex/2025/cve-2025-45691.json
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2025-45691
advisory
github.com /vibrantlabsai/ragas
package
pypi.org /project/ragas
package
github.com /advisories/GHSA-v2xr-wvrv-p969
advisory

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

Summary