CVE-2025-14931

Affects: Hugging Face

CVSS: CRITICAL · 10v3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Published: 2025-12-23
Weakness: CWE-502
Source: nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14931

Description

Hugging Face smolagents Remote Python Executor Deserialization of Untrusted Data Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Hugging Face smolagents. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw exists within the parsing of pickle data. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of user-supplied data, which can result in deserialization of untrusted data. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the service account. Was ZDI-CAN-28312.

References

https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-25-1143/

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