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LOW 3.4

GHSA-37q5-v5qm-c9v8

Transformers Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability

Details

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.

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Affected packages

PyPI / transformers
Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 4.38.0
Fix pip install --upgrade 'transformers>=4.38.0'

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