# Guardrails AI vulnerable to Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

Advisory record · `GHSA-f8hx-f4xw-c646`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-f8hx-f4xw-c646` · `CVE-2024-6961` · `PYSEC-2026-1431`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 5.9 Medium
- **Critical:** No
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-611](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/611.html)
- **Tags:** [XML external entities (XXE)](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/xxe.md)
- **Published:** 21 Jul 2024
- **Updated:** 7 Jul 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 21 Jul 2024, 12:30 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

## Affected packages

- `guardrails-ai` (PyPI): affected `<0.5.0`; fixed in `0.5.0`

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

## Severity and exploitation

- 5.9 Medium, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N`, from CNA (JFROG)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0041, the 35th percentile, on 9 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

This record came from the full history of the GitHub Advisory Database, published 21 Jul 2024. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-f8hx-f4xw-c646](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f8hx-f4xw-c646)
- [OSV: GHSA-f8hx-f4xw-c646](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-f8hx-f4xw-c646)
- <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6961>
- <https://github.com/guardrails-ai/guardrails/pull/922>
- <https://github.com/guardrails-ai/guardrails/commit/f3d806afee31e2e3f97af682d16c3c1bc0d3c380>
- <https://github.com/guardrails-ai/guardrails>
- <https://research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/guardrails-rail-xxe-jfsa-2024-001035519>

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.

## Check whether this affects you

A Match means an installed version is in the affected range above. Most don’t affect the app; agentprime hasn’t analysed this one yet.

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- Whether it touches your code, with file and line: the Claude Code plugin, <https://agentprime.io/plugin.md>
- As JSON: <https://api.agentprime.io/v1/advisories/GHSA-f8hx-f4xw-c646>, or `POST https://api.agentprime.io/v1/match` with your packages (<https://agentprime.io/api.md>)

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