Hugging Face Transformers Perceiver Model Deserialization of Untrusted Data Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Description

Hugging Face Transformers Perceiver Model Deserialization of Untrusted Data Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Hugging Face Transformers. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the parsing of model files. 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 current user. Was ZDI-CAN-25423.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.36% · top 70% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.

Weakness

• CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-502 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Hugging Face · Transformers

  • affected 9c8bd3fc1befe54f3efb9f385561eef49f060a70

References (1)

• ZDI-25-1150 (opens in a new tab)x_research-advisory

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 24 Dec 2025, 16:29 UTC.