CVE-2026-75104Hugging Face Transformers Path Traversal via Checkpoint Index
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Hugging Face Transformers fails to validate shard filenames in checkpoint index files, allowing attackers to read arbitrary files outside the model directory. Attackers can supply malicious index files with parent-directory references or absolute paths that are joined without validation, enabling file disclosure and filesystem reconnaissance.
- CVSS
- 5.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-22
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- VulnCheck
- NVD analysis
- Awaiting Analysis
- Record last updated
- Sep 24, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
huggingface transformers huggingface:transformers (from the name) | through 5.15.0 | CNA record |
References
- https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/issues/47176issue-tracking
- https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/issues/47177issue-tracking
- https://github.com/huggingface/transformersproduct
- https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/main/src/transformers/utils/hub.pytechnical-description
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/hugging-face-transformers-path-traversal-via-checkpoint-indexthird-party-advisory
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