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GHSA-29pf-2h5f-8g72: HuggingFace transformers vulnerable to remote code execution

OSV AI package advisories · observation · May 24, 2026 · UTC

A critical remote code execution vulnerability exists in all versions of the HuggingFace transformers library prior to version 5.3.0. The vulnerability allows an attacker to craft a malicious `config.json` file containing the `_attn_implementation_internal` field set to an attacker-controlled HuggingFace Hub repository ID. When a victim loads this model using the standard `AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained()` API, the library downloads and executes arbitrary Python code from the attacker's repository with the victim's full OS privileges. This issue arises due to unfiltered deserialization o

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recordType
vulnerability
status
active
evidenceStatus
reported
region
Global

Evidence & attribution

First collected: 2026-09-19T20:26:46.936Z. This is not the publication date.