CVE-2026-5241: high-severity vulnerability in huggingface/transformers
Policy Bypass in LightGlue Nested Config Resolution in huggingface/transformers
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.7epss 0.6%
A vulnerability in the LightGlue model loading path of huggingface/transformers version 5.2.0 allows an attacker-controlled model repository to execute arbitrary code during model initialization. The issue arises because the `trust_remote_code` parameter, intended to prevent remote code execution, is overridden by untrusted serialized configuration data in a nested code path. Specifically, when loading a LightGlue model using `AutoModel.from_pretrained()` with `trust_remote_code=False`, the `LightGlueConfig` reads the `trust_remote_code` value from the untrusted `config.json` file and propagates it into nested `AutoConfig.from_pretrained()` calls. This results in the execution of attacker-provided Python modules, even when the victim explicitly disables remote code execution. The vulnerability poses a high risk for environments such as API inference servers, research notebooks, CI/CD pipelines, and model evaluation workers, potentially leading to credential theft, lateral movement, or persistence/backdoor deployment.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Affected products
huggingface · huggingface/transformersRelated CVEs — huggingface/transformers
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2024-3568LOWArbitrary Code Execution via Deserialization in huggingface/transformersEPSS 2.1%CVE-2023-6730CRITICALDeserialization of Untrusted Data in huggingface/transformersEPSS 0.9%CVE-2024-12720MEDIUMRegular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in huggingface/transformersEPSS 0.7%CVE-2023-7018CRITICALDeserialization of Untrusted Data in huggingface/transformersEPSS 0.7%CVE-2026-4372HIGHArbitrary Remote Code Execution via `_attn_implementation_internal` Config Injection in huggingface/transformersEPSS 0.7%CVE-2025-2099MEDIUMRegular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in huggingface/transformersEPSS 0.6%
References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:34456https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:37275https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:42644https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60520https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-5241https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2484384https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/commit/676559d5022b74aaa0cee1cee0842b7f27c5320ehttps://huntr.com/bounties/ceb3ce1a-4c45-497a-b25e-cb9a7685e619https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-5241.json