CVE-2023-7018 — Deserialization of Untrusted Data in GitHub repository huggingface/transformers

Deserialization of Untrusted Data in GitHub repository huggingface/transformers prior to 4.36.

01What is this vulnerability?

Deserialization of Untrusted Data in GitHub repository huggingface/transformers prior to 4.36.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
huggingface	huggingface/transformers	unspecified

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-12-20T16:13:01.023Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-02T08:50:07.578Z

09References

• huntr.com — https://huntr.com/bounties/e1a3e548-e53a-48df-b708-9ee62140963c
• github.com — https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/commit/1d63b0ec361e7a38f1339385e8a5a…