CVE-2025-14931 (GCVE-0-2025-14931)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-23 21:04 – Updated: 2025-12-26 14:34
VLAI
Title
Hugging Face smolagents Remote Python Executor Deserialization of Untrusted Data Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Summary
Hugging Face smolagents Remote Python Executor Deserialization of Untrusted Data Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Hugging Face smolagents. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the parsing of pickle data. 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 service account. Was ZDI-CAN-28312.
Severity
10 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-12-26 14:34 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Assigner
zdi CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 73/100 over 121 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Hugging Face smolagents Affected: 1.22.0
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Date Public
2025-12-18 21:14
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