diff --git a/libs/core/langchain_core/utils/loading.py b/libs/core/langchain_core/utils/loading.py
index 9e3f83ec70f5a..10ab94bcc4e61 100644
--- a/libs/core/langchain_core/utils/loading.py
+++ b/libs/core/langchain_core/utils/loading.py
@@ -9,16 +9,28 @@
 
 import requests
 
+from langchain_core._api.deprecation import deprecated
+
 DEFAULT_REF = os.environ.get("LANGCHAIN_HUB_DEFAULT_REF", "master")
+LANGCHAINHUB_REPO = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hwchase17/langchain-hub/"
 URL_BASE = os.environ.get(
     "LANGCHAIN_HUB_URL_BASE",
-    "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hwchase17/langchain-hub/{ref}/",
+    LANGCHAINHUB_REPO + "{ref}/",
 )
 HUB_PATH_RE = re.compile(r"lc(?P<ref>@[^:]+)?://(?P<path>.*)")
 
 T = TypeVar("T")
 
 
+@deprecated(
+    since="0.1.30",
+    removal="0.2",
+    message=(
+        "Using the hwchase17/langchain-hub "
+        "repo for prompts is deprecated. Please use "
+        "https://smith.langchain.com/hub instead."
+    ),
+)
 def try_load_from_hub(
     path: Union[str, Path],
     loader: Callable[[str], T],
@@ -43,6 +55,8 @@ def try_load_from_hub(
     # Instead, use PurePosixPath to ensure that forward slashes are used as the
     # path separator, regardless of the operating system.
     full_url = urljoin(URL_BASE.format(ref=ref), PurePosixPath(remote_path).__str__())
+    if not full_url.startswith(LANGCHAINHUB_REPO):
+        raise ValueError(f"Invalid hub path: {path}")
 
     r = requests.get(full_url, timeout=5)
     if r.status_code != 200:
diff --git a/libs/core/poetry.lock b/libs/core/poetry.lock
index 3ecb233f5ff48..1cf584cae401d 100644
--- a/libs/core/poetry.lock
+++ b/libs/core/poetry.lock
@@ -2214,6 +2214,25 @@ urllib3 = ">=1.21.1,<3"
 socks = ["PySocks (>=1.5.6,!=1.5.7)"]
 use-chardet-on-py3 = ["chardet (>=3.0.2,<6)"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "responses"
+version = "0.25.0"
+description = "A utility library for mocking out the `requests` Python library."
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.8"
+files = [
+    {file = "responses-0.25.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:2f0b9c2b6437db4b528619a77e5d565e4ec2a9532162ac1a131a83529db7be1a"},
+    {file = "responses-0.25.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:01ae6a02b4f34e39bffceb0fc6786b67a25eae919c6368d05eabc8d9576c2a66"},
+]
+
+[package.dependencies]
+pyyaml = "*"
+requests = ">=2.30.0,<3.0"
+urllib3 = ">=1.25.10,<3.0"
+
+[package.extras]
+tests = ["coverage (>=6.0.0)", "flake8", "mypy", "pytest (>=7.0.0)", "pytest-asyncio", "pytest-cov", "pytest-httpserver", "tomli", "tomli-w", "types-PyYAML", "types-requests"]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "rfc3339-validator"
 version = "0.1.4"
@@ -2796,4 +2815,4 @@ extended-testing = ["jinja2"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = ">=3.8.1,<4.0"
-content-hash = "8fe07123109b62d7210542d8aff20df6df00819e5b0f36bc12f02206c5161c43"
+content-hash = "de97591989f083b89c7a7bc6dabba87e29e13fddc812450d5196d564b2c02ce1"
diff --git a/libs/core/pyproject.toml b/libs/core/pyproject.toml
index 6fcc4a721f12d..045602969585d 100644
--- a/libs/core/pyproject.toml
+++ b/libs/core/pyproject.toml
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ pytest-watcher = "^0.3.4"
 pytest-asyncio = "^0.21.1"
 grandalf = "^0.8"
 pytest-profiling = "^1.7.0"
+responses = "^0.25.0"
 
 
 [tool.poetry.group.test_integration]
diff --git a/libs/community/tests/unit_tests/utilities/test_loading.py b/libs/core/tests/unit_tests/utils/test_loading.py
similarity index 91%
rename from libs/community/tests/unit_tests/utilities/test_loading.py
rename to libs/core/tests/unit_tests/utils/test_loading.py
index 961bcbd8733dd..89678f32dcfac 100644
--- a/libs/community/tests/unit_tests/utilities/test_loading.py
+++ b/libs/core/tests/unit_tests/utils/test_loading.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 
 import pytest
 import responses
+
 from langchain_core.utils.loading import DEFAULT_REF, URL_BASE, try_load_from_hub
 
 
@@ -94,3 +95,12 @@ def test_failed_request(mocked_responses: responses.RequestsMock) -> None:
     with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=re.compile("Could not find file at .*")):
         try_load_from_hub(f"lc://{path}", loader, "chains", {"json"})
     loader.assert_not_called()
+
+
+def test_path_traversal() -> None:
+    """Test that a path traversal attack is prevented."""
+    path = "lc://chains/../../../../../../../../../it.json"
+    loader = Mock()
+
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+        try_load_from_hub(path, loader, "chains", {"json"})