Is langchain safe to use?

langchain has 1 known vulnerabilities on the latest version (1.2.16). DepScope rates its health at 85/100 (low risk).

What is the latest version of langchain?

The latest version of langchain is 1.2.16, released 2026-04-29.

Does langchain have known vulnerabilities?

Yes. langchain has 1 known vulnerabilities. See depscope.dev/pkg/pypi/langchain for details.

Is langchain deprecated?

No, langchain is actively maintained. Latest release: 1.2.16 (2026-04-29).

What are alternatives to langchain?

Popular alternatives to langchain in PyPI include: packaging, certifi, urllib3, idna, typing_extensions.

What license does langchain use?

langchain is licensed under MIT.

langchain

pypiv1.2.16

Building applications with LLMs through composability

License MITpermissive487 versions20 deps55,074,546 weekly dl

langchain-ai/langchain

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Health

do not use

langchain has critical vulnerabilities — do not use

Update to >= 2.8.5 to fix known vulnerabilities

1 critical vulnerabilities

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

15/25

security

15/15

maturity

10/15

community

Vulnerabilities

1 critical

Advisories (1)

Severity	ID	Summary	Fixed in
critical	CVE-2023-39631	Langchain vulnerable to arbitrary code execution via the evaluate function in the numexpr library	2.8.5

OSS Scorecard

OpenSSF security posture score

6.4/10

moderate

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

9

Contributors (12m)

9

Primary author dominance

43%

GitHub stars

134,405

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.51high

Download trend

stable(0%)

Health History

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