CVE-2026-24009 (GCVE-0-2026-24009)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-22 15:04 – Updated: 2026-01-22 15:59
VLAI
Title
Docling Core vulnerable to Remote Code Execution via unsafe PyYAML usage
Summary
Docling Core (or docling-core) is a library that defines core data types and transformations in the document processing application Docling. A PyYAML-related Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability, namely CVE-2020-14343, is exposed in docling-core starting in version 2.21.0 and prior to version 2.48.4, specifically only if the application uses pyyaml prior to version 5.4 and invokes `docling_core.types.doc.DoclingDocument.load_from_yaml()` passing it untrusted YAML data. The vulnerability has been patched in docling-core version 2.48.4. The fix mitigates the issue by switching `PyYAML` deserialization from `yaml.FullLoader` to `yaml.SafeLoader`, ensuring that untrusted data cannot trigger code execution. Users who cannot immediately upgrade docling-core can alternatively ensure that the installed version of PyYAML is 5.4 or greater.
Severity
8.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-01-22 15:59 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7846 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
docling-project docling-core Affected: >= 2.21.0, < 2.48.4
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