CRITICAL

GHSA-36p7-vc44-83pf

ChromaDB has a code injection vulnerability

Details

A code injection vulnerability in version 0.4.17 or later of the ChromaDB Python project allows an authenticated attacker to run arbitrary code on the server by sending a malicious model repository and trust_remote_code set to true in the /api/v2/tenants/default_tenant/databases/default_database/collections/{collection_id} if they have the UPDATE_COLLECTION permission.

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Affected packages

PyPI / chromadb

Introduced in: 0.4.17

No fixed version published yet for chromadb (pip). Pin to a known-safe version or switch to an alternative.

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-45833 [ADVISORY]
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-45833 [WEB]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2488430 [WEB]
https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma [PACKAGE]
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-45833.json [WEB]
https://www.hiddenlayer.com/sai-security-advisory/2026-06-chromadb-5 [WEB]