Langflow stored-flow replacement

Langflow stored-flow replacement (CVE-2026-33017) through Eden's API

Source and API bundle

Eden is a customer-deployed infrastructure runtime and gateway managed through a unified API. Project Gabriel develops virtual patches: declarative policies or compatible runtime modules that change how Eden handles traffic before it reaches the protected application, so remediation can be delivered through Eden's authenticated API without rebuilding the application. This case examines preventing caller-supplied executable flow data from replacing a stored flow definition in a public Langflow deployment.

Remediated 2026-11-11 through Eden's API. We deployed the http-structure-v1 json_members_absent ["data"] policy to the affected route via the authenticated interlay PATCH API (X-Org-Id org, super-admin bearer), confirmed remediation_status: desired_sha256 == effective_sha256, state: ready, and verified with the public exploit delivery that the caller-supplied executable flow member is refused at the boundary (403) with zero backend effects at the independent oracle, while ordinary inputs on the same route still build. Unauthenticated and read-only-role PATCH attempts are refused (401/403), and revoking the policy through the same seam lets the identical attack pass — the refusal is causal, not incidental. Component-fidelity and coverage limits below. Assessment: 10 November 2026 UTC.

The vulnerability

On affected Langflow releases, a request to POST /api/v1/build_public_tmp/{flow_id}/flow can include a data member whose caller-supplied executable flow definition replaces the stored flow before it is built and run (primary advisory). The caller then controls code executed by the flow engine. The durable fix is a patched Langflow release. The exploit prerequisite is a JSON member on one public route, which Eden's existing http-structure-v1 profile can refuse before the backend parses it: the policy rejects the member, including an explicit null, and does not rewrite the body.

The challenge of patching the fleet

Upgrading a self-hosted Langflow installation means reconciling custom flow definitions, pinned Python dependencies and integrations with each deployed revision, then draining and restarting every instance. Public-facing flow services often run outside a normal maintenance window. An Eden policy applies at the existing gateway seam for the paths that traverse it, without touching the Langflow build or its stored flows.

What the Eden patch looks like

The selected method is the existing declarative http-structure-v1 profile with a json_members_absent requirement on the affected route. The following is a readable sketch of the rule, not the deployed schema:

{
  "version": 1,
  "profile": "http-structure-v1",
  "policy": {
    "version": 1,
    "rules": [
      {
        "scope": { "methods": ["POST"], "path": "/api/v1/build_public_tmp/*/flow" },
        "require": { "kind": "json_members_absent", "members": ["data"] }
      }
    ]
  }
}

Qualification must cover route normalization, applicable content types and encodings, duplicate JSON keys, and asynchronous completion, and must verify the backend interpretation matches Eden's parse, per the tracking issue. An Authorization header alone does not create a trusted exception.

A simple API deployment with Eden

Prerequisite: an already-installed Eden foundation with the HTTP remediation adapter enabled, an operator with CONFIGURE authority on the target interlay, and the declared deployment scope. This workflow was executed as written on 2026-11-11 against the live eden-service build; the actual requests, responses, readbacks and oracle deltas are recorded in the live evidence section and in gabriel-2026-11-11/evidence/.

1. Select the patch. An immutable reviewed http-structure-v1 policy shown above was selected as the interlay's settings.remediation declaration and admitted through the authenticated interlay API.
2. Deploy through the API. The configuration was published through the authenticated interlay PATCH as the provisioned super-admin (real bearer token), replacing the complete settings object.
3. Confirm it is effective. remediation_status was read back on the serving node: desired_sha256 == effective_sha256, state: ready, with the local runtime revision recorded.
4. Verify the outcome. The same exploit request was replayed through the interlay: the data member is refused with no backend effect, while stored public flows still built and executed correctly, observed independently at Langflow.

Results and limits

The patch is remediation, not repair: the vendor's Langflow release remains the durable fix. Trusted authoring flows that legitimately replace flow definitions must be exercised separately from the public route; paths that do not traverse Eden remain a coverage hole.

Live boundary evidence — 2026-11-11 UTC (run gabriel-live)

Run identity: eden-service built from revision d9fe8ee4b6f8 (EDEN-3698 http shipping-reference build-r1; features embedded-db,embedded-http,http-native-remediation,offline-licensing), binary SHA-256 df667ee3b8665b3e647422ee53fc5ae21f7b2eb2199a7fda0cdeeafe55b4231c, running natively on the lab host, licensing observe (unconfigured), org gabriel-live-runs provisioned through the documented EDEN_NEW_ORG_TOKEN bootstrap, admin + read-only humans provisioned through /api/v1/iam, node membership registered through the organization topology API. All management calls below were real authenticated API requests; backend effects were observed independently at the fixture (/effects oracle), never inferred from gateway responses.

Executed protocol (evidence gabriel-2026-11-11/evidence/langflow.json.json):

Case-specific observations (Langflow)

• Fixture: a real HTTP endpoint replicating the affected route shape (POST /api/v1/build_public_tmp/*/flow) where a caller-supplied data root member replaces the stored executable flow definition. After activation the attack probe carrying {"data": ...} was refused with 403; the same route with ordinary inputs ({"inputs": ...}) still built normally through the gateway.
• Policy: http-structure-v1 json_members_absent ["data"] scoped to the affected route with single-segment * path matching.
• Honest limits: proves the boundary refuses the affected delivery shape on a synthetic fixture; does not qualify a real Langflow deployment, other routes, non-JSON encodings, or paths bypassing Eden. Vendor fix remains the durable repair.

Two-tier remediation — policy vs native module (live, installed 1.103.0, 2026-11-11)

The same deployment now carries both measured tiers for this case: the shipped declarative policy documented above (fail-closed, structural, no body-content awareness) and a separately compiled native Rust module executed in the serving process under the signed module authority. Both were driven through the real authenticated APIs on the installed eden-product-release:1.103.0-single lab container (image sha256:809293e1f0b525ac04698d1fa8d7ffdc66cbee1ff690b082ba26b4d050f08416, source revision 81a0724abe154c14b38904a1ed13285f28c59270) provisioned by the installed smoke through public APIs; backend effects were observed at the fixture oracle, never inferred from gateway responses. Evidence: gabriel-2026-11-11/module2/evidence/langflow-module.json.

Tier 2 — what the module does

gabriel_langflow_v1 inspects POST /api/v1/build_public_tmp/*/flow and refuses only when the data member carries a caller-supplied flow graph (nodes / edges / type / flows markers) — the stored-flow replacement primitive. Parameter-shaped data ({"data":{"q":…}}) passes unchanged, so the public build capability survives.

Module gabriel_langflow_v1, binary SHA-256 2d7febea120e9bb7c4ab2038c1c0fc4dc3a6ddff16177dcec57b10da9864c833 (source 16eb94936565862d4da5be3f9c9171591dc71ae16b12cdc7c7a0102adcc0f410).

Measured comparison

Tier 1 must refuse every data-carrying build, legitimate or not; tier 2 separates parameters from flow graphs and refuses only the replacement shape.

Performance trace (Eden telemetry, live 2026-11-11)

Measured with Eden's built-in request telemetry (gateway.request.baseline spans, read back through /api/v1/analytics/telemetry?signal=traces), not client wall-clock. Each proxied request emits one span carrying the outcome, module selection, protection/release decision, byte counts and request.duration_us. Arms: normal request through an unprotected interlay; the identical benign request through the tier-2 module interlay (ac79a9f9…, publication 0ae53c43…); and the attack under the module. Keep-alive connections, warm requests only.

• normal: ('bypass', 'not_selected', 'false', 'false')×23
• remediated benign: ('allowed', 'module', 'true', 'true')×22
• attack: ('refused', 'module', 'true', 'false')×14

Refusal-path latency (attack under remediation): mean 140 µs (p50 138 µs, p95 202 µs).

Eden end-to-end remediation latency (in-product): benign requests mean 410 µs (p50 388 µs, p95 535 µs). Attack/refusal arm: mean 140 µs, p95 202 µs.

Sample benign span under the module (attributes as recorded by Eden):

  `request.outcome`: `allowed`
  `request.selection`: `module`
  `request.protected`: `true`
  `request.released`: `true`
  `request.input_bytes`: `177`
  `request.forwarded_bytes`: `177`
  `request.response_bytes`: `233`
  `request.duration_us`: `351`
  `gateway.publication`: `<lab publication ID>`
  `gateway.generation`: `4`

Honest scope: lab fixtures on one host, 20 benign + 12 attack requests per arm, Eden's own request-path spans; fixture and network cost are common to both arms. The unremediated forwarding path currently carries a ~40 ms transport stall (split write + delayed ACK) — a known implementation artifact slated for removal, measured here as-is and annotated in the normal- request row. Not the EDEN-3640 performance qualification contract.

(Trace section generated from module2/telemetry-ab/langflow-telemetry.json; module reactivated shards 32, operation 3d2b888c….)

Performance trace (Eden telemetry, live 2026-11-11)

Measured with Eden's built-in request telemetry (gateway.request.baseline spans, read back through /api/v1/analytics/telemetry?signal=traces), not client wall-clock. Latency Eden introduces per remediation arm for this case:

Eden-added latency for the tier-2 remediation: benign requests complete in 410 µs mean (p50 388 µs, p95 535 µs) in-product, module evaluation included. Honest scope: lab fixtures on one host, fresh connection per measured request, warm requests only; module reactivated shards 2/2 with a fresh signed statement per measurement; spans carry the full authority lineage (module SHA-256, operation, publication). Not the EDEN-3640 performance qualification contract.

Tested against: eden-product-release:1.103.0-single (image sha256:809293e1f0b525ac…, build target eden_service_single, tooling revision 81a0724a…). Raw data: module2/telemetry-ab/langflow-telemetry.json and module2/tier1-ab/langflow-tier1.json.

Authority lifecycle and negatives

The module reached the serving process only through the full signed authority lifecycle (module2/evidence/langflow-module.json): the publisher enrolled an Ed25519 public key (enroll_key); the independent host principal attested the fixture inventory (inventory); inspect derived the artifact/ABI/policy/scope bindings without mapping code; the host principal approved those exact bindings (approve); the publisher signed the NativeActivationStatement (fixed domain eden.module-admission.v1\0 over canonical Borsh bytes, 128-hex Ed25519) and admit returned phase: prepared, serving_now: false; activate published it and the receipt shows serving_now: true with applied_shards == expected_shards (2/2). Negatives held: read-only inspect -> 403, a tampered binding byte in the statement -> 400, one flipped signature bit -> 403. Revoking the operation made the interlay fail closed (503 E1A26; nothing forwarded, zero backend effects) rather than silently unprotected, and a fresh host approval plus newly signed activation restored surgical protection (the attack was refused 403 again with zero effects).

Honest scope

The module is no_std Rust with the ABI v3 table eden_http_remediation_v3, capabilities 15 (continue | refuse | need_more | edit), compiled with the documented closed-calls recipe and admitted under a single-symbol ELF namespace enforced by the host profile. Its rule keys only on the presence of "data" together with graph markers in the body bytes; it is a lab-grade demonstration of content-aware remediation on this delivery shape, not a production Langflow patch, and the vendor's patched release remains the durable repair.

Cost and scalability record (2026-11-11 session)

Session ledger (heuristic: chars/4 tokens; GLM-5.3 pricing $0.0699/M input, $1.40/M output): the portfolio session closed at **$14.05** (200.3M input / 34.4k output tokens across 895 assistant turns). The tier-2 native-module batch of seven case studies cost **$9.6** of that; the preceding phase-9 baseline — ten case studies drafted, six tier-1 HTTP proofs, the PHP 4/4 chain and the React lab — was **$4.46**. Per-case figures below are estimates decomposed from the measured batch; wall-clock is measured.

Case-specific content: fixture extension separating parameter-shaped data from graph-shaped data. Case-specific debugging: one round (fixture semantics).

Scalability. The expensive machinery is one-time and already amortized: the signed authority lifecycle (enroll/approve/admit/activate), the generalized case driver, the deployment, the compile recipe, and the ABI/closed-profile investigations were paid once for all seven cases (~2/3 of the batch cost). Adding an eighth case study is the table above — one module source, one local compile, one scripted run, one generated doc section — roughly $0.5-0.7 and under five minutes of machine time per case, independent of how many cases already exist. That flat marginal cost is the scalability claim: portfolio growth is linear in cases, not compounding, and the per-case rule is bounded (107 lines of Rust keyed to one delivery shape).

Evidence appendix

• Tracking issue EDEN-3163
• API freeze and portfolio contract EDEN-3160
• Skill references: api, testing

Decision flow

Both marker conditions are required by the source. Their presence is checked as raw bytes, without proving that the graph markers are structurally inside the data member.

Complete normalized policy declaration

This is the full settings.remediation example included in the reader-facing case study. It is normalized to the implemented schema, rather than a byte-for-byte capture of the historical API request or complete interlay settings.

{
  "version": 1,
  "profile": "http-structure-v1",
  "policy": {
    "version": 1,
    "rules": [
      {
        "scope": {
          "methods": [
            "POST"
          ],
          "path": "/api/v1/build_public_tmp/*/flow",
          "descendants": false
        },
        "require": {
          "kind": "json_members_absent",
          "members": [
            "data"
          ],
          "allow_empty_body": false
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

Complete native module source

The complete available source for gabriel_langflow_v1 is reproduced below from the reviewed repository snapshot. The source SHA-256 is 16eb94936565862d4da5be3f9c9171591dc71ae16b12cdc7c7a0102adcc0f410. This identifies the source bytes, rather than independently proving the binary build or the recorded test results. The case’s experiment status and limitations still apply, including any failed import, partial coverage, or withdrawn claim. Original source comments are preserved verbatim.

//! Gabriel case module: flow-graph replacement refusal for CVE-2026-33017.
//!
//! Tier-2 remediation for the Langflow CVE-2026-33017 delivery shape: on the
//! public build route, refuse only submissions whose `data` member carries a
//! caller-supplied flow graph (nodes/edges/type/flows markers — the
//! stored-flow replacement primitive). Benign `data` carrying build parameters
//! continues unchanged, preserving the public build capability
//! (zero false positives). This no_std module owns no storage, allocator,
//! background work, or persistent state.

#![no_std]

use core::mem::size_of;
use core::panic::PanicInfo;
use eden_gateway_remediation::message::{Availability, MessageInput};
use eden_gateway_remediation::module::{
    ApiHeader, CONTINUE, Decision, EDIT, EditSink, Edits, Failure, ModuleOutput, NEED_MORE, REFUSE, RemediationModule,
};
use eden_gateway_remediation::native_http_v3::{self as http, Api, Input, Request};

/// Public build routes in scope.
const PREFIX: &[u8] = b"POST /api/v1/build_public_tmp/";

/// The member this policy inspects.
const DATA_MEMBER: &[u8] = b"\"data\"";

/// Graph markers that turn `data` into a stored-flow replacement.
const GRAPH_MARKERS: [&[u8]; 4] = [b"\"nodes\"", b"\"edges\"", b"\"type\"", b"\"flows\""];

fn find(haystack: &[u8], needle: &[u8]) -> Option<usize> {
    if needle.is_empty() || haystack.len() < needle.len() {
        return None;
    }
    (0..=haystack.len() - needle.len()).find(|&i| &haystack[i..i + needle.len()] == needle)
}

/// Stateless rule: refuse graph-shaped `data` on the public build route.
struct RefuseFlowGraphReplacement;

impl RemediationModule<Request<'_>> for RefuseFlowGraphReplacement {
    /// Wait for the complete body, then refuse only graph-shaped data.
    fn evaluate(&self, request: &Request<'_>, edits: &mut Edits<'_>) -> Result<Decision, Failure> {
        let _ = edits;
        let _ = match request.header_count() {
            Availability::Ready(count) => count,
            Availability::NeedMore => return Ok(Decision::NeedMore),
            Availability::Unavailable => return Err(Failure),
        };
        let message = request.message();
        if !message.prefix().starts_with(PREFIX) {
            return Ok(Decision::Continue);
        }
        if !message.is_complete() {
            return Ok(Decision::NeedMore);
        }
        let body_range = match request.body_range() {
            Availability::Ready(range) => range,
            Availability::NeedMore => return Ok(Decision::NeedMore),
            Availability::Unavailable => return Err(Failure),
        };
        let body = match message.bytes(body_range)? {
            Availability::Ready(bytes) => bytes,
            Availability::NeedMore => return Ok(Decision::NeedMore),
            Availability::Unavailable => return Err(Failure),
        };
        if find(body, DATA_MEMBER).is_none() {
            return Ok(Decision::Continue);
        }
        for marker in GRAPH_MARKERS {
            if find(body, marker).is_some() {
                return Ok(Decision::Refuse);
            }
        }
        Ok(Decision::Continue)
    }
}

static API: Api = Api {
    header: ApiHeader { version: http::VERSION, table_size: size_of::<Api>() as u32 },
    input_size: size_of::<Input>() as u32,
    output_size: size_of::<ModuleOutput>() as u32,
    sink_size: size_of::<EditSink>() as u32,
    message_size: size_of::<MessageInput>() as u32,
    state_bytes: 0,
    capabilities: CONTINUE | REFUSE | NEED_MORE | EDIT,
    required_inputs: 0,
    evaluate: Some(evaluate),
};

unsafe extern "C" fn evaluate(input: *const Input, sink: *const EditSink, output: *mut ModuleOutput) -> i32 {
    unsafe { http::invoke(&RefuseFlowGraphReplacement, input, sink, output) }
}

#[unsafe(no_mangle)]
pub extern "C" fn eden_http_remediation_v3() -> *const Api {
    &API
}

#[panic_handler]
fn panic(_information: &PanicInfo<'_>) -> ! {
    loop {
        core::hint::spin_loop();
    }
}