PYSEC-2026-2288

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2026-1839
Aliases
GHSA-69w3-r845-3855
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

A vulnerability in the HuggingFace Transformers library, specifically in the `Trainer` class, allows for arbitrary code execution. The `_load_rng_state()` method in `src/transformers/trainer.py` at line 3059 calls `torch.load()` without the `weights_only=True` parameter. This issue affects all versions of the library supporting `torch>=2.2` when used with PyTorch versions below 2.6, as the `safe_globals()` context manager provides no protection in these versions. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by supplying a malicious checkpoint file, such as `rng_state.pth`, which can execute arbitrary code when loaded. The issue is resolved in version v5.0.0rc3.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
PyPI · transformersintroduced 0, fixed 5.0.0

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — PyPA Advisory Database