CVE-2025-9959 (GCVE-0-2025-9959)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-03 16:53 – Updated: 2025-09-03 18:48
VLAI?
Summary
Incomplete validation of dunder attributes allows an attacker to escape from the Local Python execution environment sandbox, enforced by smolagents. The attack requires a Prompt Injection in order to trick the agent to create malicious code.
Severity ?
7.6 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Affected: 0 , < 1.21.0 (python)
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