---
id: CVE-2025-45691
aliases:
  - GHSA-v2xr-wvrv-p969
  - PYSEC-2026-3047
title: RAGAS has an Arbitrary File Read vulnerability
summary: RAGAS has an Arbitrary File Read vulnerability
severity: high
cvss: 7.5
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'
vendor: ragas
product: ragas
ecosystem: pip
affected:
  - 'ragas >= 0.2.3, < 0.3.0-rc1'
patched:
  - ragas 0.3.0-rc1
published: '2026-03-05'
updated: '2026-07-13'
source: OSV
sourceUrl: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-v2xr-wvrv-p969'
references:
  - url: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-45691'
  - url: 'https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/pull/1559'
  - url: 'https://github.com/vibrantlabsai/ragas/pull/1991'
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/vibrantlabsai/ragas/commit/b28433709cbedbb531db79dadcfbdbd3aa6adcb0
  - url: 'https://adithyanak.com/ragas-v0214-arbitrary-file-read-vulnerability'
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/blob/e97886ac976465efb60e5949c5d69baf30cc811d/src/ragas/prompt/multi_modal_prompt.py#L202
  - url: 'https://github.com/vibrantlabsai/ragas'
tags:
  - osv
  - pip
epss: 0.00534
epssPercentile: 0.42569
ingestedAt: '2026-07-13T18:58:03.069Z'
---

## Overview

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 packages

- `ragas >= 0.2.3, < 0.3.0-rc1`

## Remediation

Upgrade to a patched release:

- `ragas 0.3.0-rc1`