GHSA-5478-V2W6-C6Q7

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-03-11 09:30 – Updated: 2025-03-11 20:07

Withdrawn 2025-03-11

Summary

Duplicate Advisory: Keras arbitrary code execution vulnerability

Details

Duplicate Advisory

This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-48g7-3x6r-xfhp. This link is maintained to preserve external references.

Original Description

The Keras Model.load_model function permits arbitrary code execution, even with safe_mode=True, through a manually constructed, malicious .keras archive. By altering the config.json file within the archive, an attacker can specify arbitrary Python modules and functions, along with their arguments, to be loaded and executed during model loading.

Severity

7.3 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

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CVE-2025-1550 (GCVE-0-2025-1550)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-11 08:12 – Updated: 2025-07-24 15:28

Title

Arbitrary Code Execution via Crafted Keras Config for Model Loading

Summary

Severity

7.3 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-07-24 15:28 UTC

CWE

CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Assigner

Google Google root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/keras-team/keras/pull/20751
https://towerofhanoi.it/writeups/cve-2025-1550/

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Google	Keras	Affected: 3.0.0 , < 3.8.0 (python)

Credits

Gabriele Digregorio

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