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MEDIUM5.5

GHSA-74m6-m3xx-3vmj

Keras model loading is vulnerable to denial of service through HDF5 shape bombs

Quick fix

GHSA-74m6-m3xx-3vmj — keras: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'keras>=3.15.0'

Details

A vulnerability in keras-team/keras versions < 3.15.0 allows for a denial of service (DoS) attack when loading malicious .keras model files via the keras.models.load_model() function. The H5IOStore.__getitem__ method in keras/src/saving/saving_lib.py does not validate the shape or size of datasets, leading to unbounded memory allocation. A specially crafted .keras file can exploit this flaw to trigger an out-of-memory (OOM) condition, causing the process to be terminated (exit code 137). This issue bypasses the fix for CVE-2026-0897, which only addressed a similar vulnerability in KerasFileEditor. The attack vector includes poisoned models from public repositories or malicious model registries, posing a risk to machine learning pipelines that process untrusted models.

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Affected packages

PyPI/keras
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 3.15.0
Fixpip install --upgrade 'keras>=3.15.0'

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