Path Traversal in huggingface/transformers (huggingface huggingface/transformers)

CVE-2026-9856
HIGH 7.1

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.46 % · percentile 40 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
@huntr_ai
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Description

A vulnerability in huggingface/transformers versions <=5.8.0.dev0 allows an attacker to perform arbitrary file writes via path traversal. The issue resides in the `save_pretrained()` methods of `PreTrainedTokenizerBase` and `ProcessorMixin`, where keys from the `chat_template` dictionary are used directly as filenames without proper validation. An attacker can exploit this by publishing a malicious Hugging Face Hub repository with a crafted `tokenizer_config.json` file. When a victim downloads and saves the tokenizer or processor, the attacker-controlled keys can escape the intended save directory, enabling arbitrary file writes with attacker-controlled content. This vulnerability affects multiple processors inheriting from `ProcessorMixin`, including Idefics, Florence, Gemma, Phi, and Qwen-VL.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-22 — Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.1CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L@huntr_ai
CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.1CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:LNVD · security@huntr.dev (Secondary)

Advisories

European references

Affected products

ProductVersions
huggingface · huggingface/transformersaffected unspecified < 5.10.0

Sources

SourceLicence
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EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD