BREW-RAPID-MLX-CVE-2024-3568 (GHSA-37Q5-V5QM-C9V8)

Vulnerability from osv_homebrew – Published: 2026-08-13 17:32 – Updated: 2026-09-10 20:37 – Source website
VLAI
Summary
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.

Severity
3.4 (Low)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
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  "affected": [
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      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "fix": "bump",
        "range_state": "fixed",
        "resource": "transformers",
        "resource_purl": "pkg:pypi/transformers@5.15.1",
        "upstream_fixed_in": "4.38.0"
      },
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        "name": "rapid-mlx",
        "purl": "pkg:brew/rapid-mlx"
      },
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    "source": "matched",
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  "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.",
  "id": "BREW-rapid-mlx-CVE-2024-3568",
  "modified": "2026-09-10T20:37:33Z",
  "published": "2026-08-13T17:32:07Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-3568"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/commit/693667b8ac8138b83f8adb6522ddaf42fa07c125"
    },
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      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/huggingface/transformers"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://huntr.com/bounties/b3c36992-5264-4d7f-9906-a996efafba8f"
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  "schema_version": "1.7.3",
  "severity": [
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      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Transformers Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability",
  "upstream": [
    "GHSA-37q5-v5qm-c9v8",
    "CVE-2024-3568",
    "PYSEC-2026-1978"
  ]
}



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