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2 vulnerabilities found for ChromaDB by Chroma
CVE-2026-45829 (GCVE-0-2026-45829)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2026-05-18 15:59 – Updated: 2026-05-19 12:53
VLAI
Summary
A pre-authentication, code injection vulnerability in version 1.0.0 or later of the ChromaDB Python project allows an unauthenticated 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/{tenant}/databases/{db}/collections endpoint.
Severity
CWE
- CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Assigner
References
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CVE-2026-45829 (GCVE-0-2026-45829)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-18 15:59 – Updated: 2026-05-19 12:53
VLAI
Summary
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Severity
CWE
- CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
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