criticalVulnerability

CVE-2026-54760

# SQLChatAgent `_validate_query` dangerous-pattern regex is bypassable via quoted/commented/qualified function names ## Summary The `SQLChatAgent` SQL-injection mitigation, with default `allow_dangerous_operations=False`, combines a raw-text regex blocklist (`_DANGEROUS_SQL_PATTERNS`) with a `sqlglot` SELECT-only statement allowlist. The blocklist entries that target callable functions require the function name to be immediately followed by `\s*\(`. PostgreSQL accepts the same call with the name separated from `(` by a quoted identifier, an inline comment, or schema qualification. These forms evade the regex, still parse as `SELECT`, and execute the same PostgreSQL function. This restores the `pg_read_file` server-side file-read primitive that the prior CVE-2026-25879 / GHSA-pmch-g965-grmr fix was meant to block: the parent advisory fixed a missing `pg_read_file` blocklist entry, while this report shows that the added regex is bypassable. ## Affected Code Tested against current `main` commit: `6e8e7b2bb23ec04c1c25be479f16b8cc9a4f8796` The current source still contains: ```python re.compile(r"\bpg_(read|stat|ls|current_logfile)[A-Za-z0-9_]*\s*\(", re.IGNORECASE) ``` `_validate_query` checks the raw query against `_DANGEROUS_SQL_PATTERNS`, then parses with `sqlglot` and allows `SELECT` statements. The dangerous-call check is raw text, not normalized AST function-name matching. ## Root Cause The current mitigation treats dangerous PostgreSQL function calls as a raw-text regex problem. The regex requires the `pg_...` function token to be followed directly by optional whitespace and `(`, but PostgreSQL accepts equivalent calls through quoted identifiers, comments, and schema-qualified names. Because `_validate_query` only uses `sqlglot` to enforce the top-level statement type, those normalized function names are never checked after parsing. ## Auth Boundary The boundary is the default `SQLChatAgent` safety policy between attacker-influenced SQL generation an

Properties

ghsa_id
GHSA-6xc5-4r68-67fc
severity
critical
summary
Langroid: SQLChatAgent dangerous-function blocklist can be bypassed with quoted or schema-qualified pg_read_file calls
epss_score
0.00558
cve_id
CVE-2026-54760
is_ghsa_only
false
ghsa_published
2026-07-06T20:39:02Z
source_url
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6xc5-4r68-67fc
epss_percentile
0.44142
ghsa_updated
2026-07-06T20:39:03Z

Related Entities (6)

ENRICHED_BY (1)

[Source]FIRST EPSS

HAS_WEAKNESS (2)

[Weakness]Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
[Weakness]Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

REPORTED_BY (1)

[Source]GitHub Advisory Database

VULNERABLE_TO (1)

[Software]pip/langroid

AFFECTS (1)

[Software]pip/langroid

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