PT-2026-105550 · Pypi · Transformers
Published
2026-09-01
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Updated
2026-09-01
CVSS v3.1
7.8
High
| Vector | AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
A vulnerability in Hugging Face Transformers (versions 4.49.0, <= 5.8.1) allows remote Python files to be written to local disk without user consent when using GenerativePreTrainedModel.load custom generate(). The function fetches and caches a remote module file before performing the required trust remote code consent check, inverting the security model enforced by other code-loading paths (such as AutoConfig, AutoModel, and AutoTokenizer). As a result, attacker‑controlled Python code from custom generate/generate.py is copied into the user’s ~/.cache/huggingface/modules directory even if the user declines the trust prompt. Although execution is correctly gated, the file write is not reversible and can persist across sessions. This can lead to persistent, unauthorized files on disk and stale cache collisions where cached attacker code may later be executed during trusted model loads. The issue stems from an unconditional file write in dynamic module utils.py prior to any trust verification.
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