PYSEC-2026-2273

Vulnerability from pysec - Published: 2026-07-01 17:16 - Updated: 2026-07-13 05:51
VLAI
Details

Ray prior to 2.56.0 contains an unsafe deserialization vulnerability in the WebDataset reader that allows attackers to achieve remote code execution by supplying a malicious tar archive to the read_webdataset() function. The _default_decoder() function in webdataset_datasource.py unconditionally calls pickle.loads() on tar entries with .pkl/.pickle extensions and torch.load() with weights_only=False on .pt/.pth entries, executing arbitrary code inside Ray remote workers on every worker that processes the malicious archive.

Severity
8.6 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Impacted products
Name purl
ray pkg:pypi/ray
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      },
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            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
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            }
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          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
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  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2026-57516",
    "GHSA-hhrp-gw25-jr43"
  ],
  "details": "Ray prior to 2.56.0 contains an unsafe deserialization vulnerability in the WebDataset reader that allows attackers to achieve remote code execution by supplying a malicious tar archive to the read_webdataset() function. The _default_decoder() function in webdataset_datasource.py unconditionally calls pickle.loads() on tar entries with .pkl/.pickle extensions and torch.load() with weights_only=False on .pt/.pth entries, executing arbitrary code inside Ray remote workers on every worker that processes the malicious archive.",
  "id": "PYSEC-2026-2273",
  "modified": "2026-07-13T05:51:14.996022Z",
  "published": "2026-07-01T17:16:37.390Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://github.com/ray-project/ray/releases/tag/ray-2.56.0"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ray-unsafe-deserialization-rce-via-webdataset-reader"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://github.com/ray-project/ray/pull/63469"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://github.com/ray-project/ray/pull/63470"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://github.com/ray-project/ray/security/advisories/GHSA-hhrp-gw25-jr43"
    }
  ],
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X",
      "type": "CVSS_V4"
    }
  ]
}



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