CVE-2024-3568
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-502
Deserialization of Untrusted Dat
Publication date:
10/04/2024
Last modified:
10/10/2025
Description
The huggingface/transformers library is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution through deserialization of untrusted data within the `load_repo_checkpoint()` function of the `TFPreTrainedModel()` class. Attackers can execute arbitrary code and commands by crafting a malicious serialized payload, exploiting the use of `pickle.load()` on data from potentially untrusted sources. This vulnerability allows for remote code execution (RCE) by deceiving victims into loading a seemingly harmless checkpoint during a normal training process, thereby enabling attackers to execute arbitrary code on the targeted machine.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
9.60
Severity 3.x
CRITICAL
Vulnerable products and versions
| CPE | From | Up to |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:huggingface:transformers:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 4.38.0 (excluding) |
To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/commit/693667b8ac8138b83f8adb6522ddaf42fa07c125
- https://huntr.com/bounties/b3c36992-5264-4d7f-9906-a996efafba8f
- https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/commit/693667b8ac8138b83f8adb6522ddaf42fa07c125
- https://huntr.com/bounties/b3c36992-5264-4d7f-9906-a996efafba8f



