Critical (9.6) in huggingface transformers. EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in transformers 4.38.0.
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.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
9.6 critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 81% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)