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Security Bulletin: IBM Rhapsody Systems Engineering is using langchain-0.3.30 which is vulnerable to CVE-2025-68665

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Summary

A security vulnerability was identified in the Langchain OSS package used in our product. The issue has been resolved by removing the vulnerable package and all LangChain-related dependencies from the codebase.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2025-68665
DESCRIPTION:   LangChain is a framework for building LLM-powered applications. Prior to @langchain/core versions 0.3.80 and 1.1.8, and prior to langchain versions 0.3.37 and 1.2.3, a serialization injection vulnerability exists in LangChain JS's toJSON() method (and subsequently when string-ifying objects using JSON.stringify(). The method did not escape objects with 'lc' keys when serializing free-form data in kwargs. The 'lc' key is used internally by LangChain to mark serialized objects. When user-controlled data contains this key structure, it is treated as a legitimate LangChain object during deserialization rather than plain user data. This issue has been patched in @langchain/core versions 0.3.80 and 1.1.8, and langchain versions 0.3.37 and 1.2.3
CWE:   CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data
CVSS Source:   NVD
CVSS Base score:   9.1
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Rhapsody Systems Engineering1.5.0-1.5.4 and 1.6.0

Remediation/Fixes

The Rhapsody SE team has fully remediated CVE-2025-68665 vulnerability by removing the impacted package and permanently eliminating all LangChain-related dependencies from the codebase. No residual exposure remains in supported versions.

 

Product(s)Version(s)How to remediate?
IBM Rhapsody Systems Engineering1.5.0-1.5.4

The vulnerability can be remediated by upgrading to version IBM Rhapsody Systems Engineering v1.5.5

 

Link:

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/systems-engineering/1.5.0?topic=upgrading

IBM Rhapsody Systems Engineering1.6.0

The vulnerability can be remediated by upgrading to version IBM Rhapsody Systems Engineering v1.6.1

 

Link:

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/systems-engineering/1.6.0?topic=upgrading

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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Acknowledgement

Change History

16 Mar 2026: Initial Publication

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
16 March 2026

Initial Publish date:
16 March 2026

UID

ibm17266186