chroma-core/chroma · Security
ChromaDB has a code injection vulnerability
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-36p7-vc44-83pf
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-45833
- Severity
- critical
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS v4
- 9.4 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
Description
A code injection vulnerability in version 0.4.17 or later of the ChromaDB Python project allows an authenticated attacker to run arbitrary code on the server by sending a malicious model repository and trust_remote_code set to true in the /api/v2/tenants/default_tenant/databases/default_database/collections/{collection_id} if they have the UPDATE_COLLECTION permission.
CWEs
- CWE-94 · Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-45833 ↗
- https://www.hiddenlayer.com/sai-security-advisory/2026-06-chromadb-5 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-45833 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2488430 ↗
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-45833.json ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-36p7-vc44-83pf ↗