Security Advisory

CVE-2024-3568

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-04-10 17:07:55
Last updated 2024-08-01 20:12:07
Assigner @huntr_ai
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.