huggingface/transformers · Security
Transformers save_pretrained path traversal allows arbitrary file writes through chat template names
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-xrqw-3rrv-vx5w
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-9856
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.1 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
- CVSS v3
- 7.1 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
Description
A vulnerability in huggingface/transformers versions < 5.10.0 allows an attacker to perform arbitrary file writes via path traversal. The issue resides in the save_pretrained() methods of PreTrainedTokenizerBase and ProcessorMixin, where keys from the chat_template dictionary are used directly as filenames without proper validation. An attacker can exploit this by publishing a malicious Hugging Face Hub repository with a crafted tokenizer_config.json file. When a victim downloads and saves the tokenizer or processor, the attacker-controlled keys can escape the intended save directory, enabling arbitrary file writes with attacker-controlled content. This vulnerability affects multiple processors inheriting from ProcessorMixin, including Idefics, Florence, Gemma, Phi, and Qwen-VL.
CWEs
- CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-9856 ↗
- https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/commit/eaaaf8494dd5386634ae37d1d122212fdc315be5 ↗
- https://huntr.com/bounties/362824d5-fe18-40e8-a6cf-62277f97a170 ↗
- https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/46191 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xrqw-3rrv-vx5w ↗